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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by Gracana on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:35AM (#12344552)
This sounds like something straight out of the Unix Hater's Handbook. :)

But epoll is not the fault of Unix. Linux gets it wrong, but others do not. There's a good (and wildly entertaining) discussion/rant about it in this BSD Now episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc

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Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft... by bitwize on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:12PM (#12346587)
epoll (and kqueue) are products of Unix's approach to I/O, which is synchronous by design. You can build synchronous I/O routines out of asynchronous primitives, but not the reverse (without resorting to separate processes/tasks/threads).

epoll is more wrong and broken than kqueue, but neither are up to the level of capability the NT kernel offers.

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