[Python-Dev] epoll implementation (original) (raw)

Christopher Weimann csw at k12hq.com
Fri May 26 20:08:17 CEST 2006

On 05/26/2006-10:07AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I don't know what epoll is. On a related note, perhaps the needforspeed folks should look into supporting kqueue on systems where it's available? That's a really fast BSD-originated API to replace select/poll. (It's fast due to the way the API is designed.)

http://python-hpio.net/trac/wiki/LibEventPython

libevent-python is a CPython wrapper extension for Niels Provos' libevent, a small, fast asynchronous IO framework that supports select(), poll(), kqueue(), /dev/poll, and epoll().

Libevent can be found here http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ and it explains the advantages of epoll/kqueue over select/poll.

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