On May 27, 2006, at 04:59, Alex Martelli wrote: > > I believe it's: kqueue on FreeBSD (for recent-enough versions > thereof), otherwise epoll where available and nonbuggy, otherwise > poll ditto, otherwise select -- that's roughly what Twisted uses for
kqueue is not always faster. It depends on your application. The number of FDs and the fd values affect the point that kqueue wins over select. For a few FDs with low values select was always faster in my apps. Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com