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A comment on Erlang, Yaws, and the deadly Tornado.

Re:Erlang, Yaws, and the deadly Tornado by c00p3r on Saturday September 19, 2009 @04:28PM (#832302)
epoll() matters.
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Re:Erlang, Yaws, and the deadly Tornado by jwecker on Saturday September 19, 2009 @07:14PM (#832437)
... to tornado.
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Re:Erlang, Yaws, and the deadly Tornado by superjared on Saturday September 19, 2009 @07:30PM (#832450)
Erlang uses epoll on Linux, kqueue on BSDs, et cetera.
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Re:Erlang, Yaws, and the deadly Tornado by jwecker on Saturday September 19, 2009 @11:40PM (#832676)
Understood. There just seem to be a lot of complaints that the system he used for benchmarking didn't have epoll and that Tornado was slow because of select. I agree. But Erlang on that machine obviously didn't use epoll either.
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