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Re: Use of Poll

From: Ken Hirsch <kenhirsch_at_ftml.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:14:35 -0400

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:10:35 +0200 (CEST), Daniel Stenberg
<daniel-curl_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> Yes, I've thought about it. That's about it. :-)
>
> > Or maybe using something like libevent?
>
> I've never heard of it. But I'm reluctant to add a dependency to another lib
> for core functionality.

There's a good page about ways to handle large number of connections:
http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
It's not particularly relevant to Curl since most methods are not very
portable and it's mostly aimed at servers, but it's still interesting stuff.
Received on 2004-07-27