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Event queuing via epoll/kqueue and IOCP – Understanding OS-Backed Event Queues, System Calls, and Cross-Platform Abstractions
This is a sort of hybrid of the previous approaches. In the case of a network call, the call itself will be non-blocking. However, instead of polling the handle regularly, we can add that handle to an event queue, and we can do that with thousands of handles with very little overhead. As programmers, we…
