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From: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: "Jérémie Dimino" <jeremie@dimino.org>
Cc: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>,
	Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>,
	caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Asynchronous IO programming in OCaml
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:42:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin-JsN0JgFYzZHNT1C_wmwXzCgfV-+8XeQqMk4O@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101024225037.GA8999@aurora>

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 18:50, Jérémie Dimino <jeremie@dimino.org> wrote:
> I made an implementation of lwt using libev [1]. I tested it with
> ocsigen and ab but the result was always a bit better with select than
> with epoll. That is why i did not replace select by libev in the main
> branch. In fact i never found the source of any benchmark comparing
> select to epoll on the web.

The performance of select was also usually slightly better in my
experiments than with epoll for at least a few tens of descriptors.
It really depends on what your requirements are.  If you are facing
hundreds or even thousands of connections, you'll probably want to
consider epoll.  select does not scale well.

Regards,
Markus

-- 
Markus Mottl        http://www.ocaml.info        markus.mottl@gmail.com


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-24 10:34 Jon Harrop
2010-10-24 12:51 ` [Caml-list] " philippe
2010-10-24 12:52 ` Dario Teixeira
2010-10-24 16:33   ` oliver
2010-10-24 18:50     ` Dario Teixeira
2010-10-24 19:04       ` bluestorm
2010-10-24 20:02       ` oliver
2010-10-24 21:51     ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-10-24 16:17 ` Jake Donham
2010-10-24 20:54   ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2010-10-24 22:50     ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-10-25  3:42       ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2010-10-25  7:49         ` Richard Jones
2010-10-25  8:42       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-10-25 11:10         ` Jérémie Dimino
     [not found]           ` <AANLkTimP77PDEChW3Yt6uUy_qxYpj6EOZWQ_==id-LBC@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <20101025143317.GB32282@aurora>
2010-10-25 15:34               ` Yaron Minsky
2010-10-25 17:26                 ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-10-27  9:33                   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-10-27 11:18                     ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-10-27 13:43                       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-10-27 15:30                         ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-10-28  9:00                           ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-10-28  9:28                             ` Jérémie Dimino
2010-10-28 10:11                               ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-10-25 15:58           ` DS
2010-10-24 20:42 ` Goswin von Brederlow

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