[Python-Dev] epoll implementation

Jonathan LaCour jonathan-lists at cleverdevil.org
Fri May 26 19:57:53 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On a related note, perhaps the needforspeed folks should look into
> supporting kqueue on systems where it's available? That's a really
> fast BSD-originated API to replace select/poll. (It's fast due to the
> way the API is designed.)

There is, in fact, an implementation of kqueue for Python already
available.  I have not used it myself, but it is available here:

     http://python-hpio.net/trac/

maybe the needforspeed people could take a look at this?

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