Monthly Archives: January 2014

Practical difference between epoll and Windows IO Completion Ports (IOCP)

Introduction This article compares the difference between the use of epoll and Windows I/O Completion Port (hereby IOCP). It may be of interest to system architects who need to create a high-performance cross-platform networking servers, and to software engineers porting such code from Windows to Linux or vice versa. It may also be of interest […]

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select / poll / epoll: practical difference for system architects

When designing a high performance networking application with non-blocking socket I/O, the architect needs to decide which polling method to use to monitor the events generated by those sockets. There are several such methods, and the use cases for each of them are different. Choosing the correct method may be critical to satisfy the application […]

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