[Python-Dev] SocketServer issues (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Mar 14 18:23:07 CET 2012

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:59:47 +0000 Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:

It just seems odd to me that it was designed to use the "select" api to do timeouts, > where timeouts are already part of the socket protocol and can be implemented more efficiently there.

How is it more efficient if it uses the exact same system calls? And why are you worrying exactly? I don't understand why accept() would be critical for performance.

Thanks

Antoine.

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