From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [patch, rfc] lt-epoll ( level triggered epoll ) ...
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:10:56 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20030311171056.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0303101139520.1922-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
On 10-Mar-2003 Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> During the last three months I spent considerable amount of time explainig
> developers how edge triggered APIs works, and how to use epoll inside
> their apps. It's time for me to face the reality, that is that:
>
> 1) developers not quite understand ET APIs
> 2) most existing apps are written using LT APIs
1) is easily solvable writing a good FAQ. "Developers" who really
can't undestand edge triggered APIs will continue to use poll().
If ET il faster than LT, tell people to stop whining and to learn
the API. Otherwise choose LT, mainly because of 2), but also
because ET API is more subtle bug prone.
Bye.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-11 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-10 20:15 Davide Libenzi
2003-03-11 4:32 ` Niels Provos
2003-03-11 18:15 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-11 20:04 ` Niels Provos
2003-03-12 18:05 ` Martin Waitz
2003-03-12 18:36 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-11 9:34 ` bert hubert
2003-03-11 18:20 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-12 12:05 ` bert hubert
2003-03-12 17:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-11 14:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-03-11 18:27 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-11 16:10 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2003-03-11 18:34 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-12 18:08 ` Martin Waitz
2003-03-12 18:30 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-12 19:21 ` Martin Waitz
2003-03-12 19:39 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-12 19:57 ` Martin Waitz
[not found] ` <20030311142447.GA14931@bjl1.jlokier.co.uk.lucky.linux.kernel>
2003-03-14 15:59 ` Valentin Nechayev
2003-03-14 16:53 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-14 17:56 ` Tim Smith
2003-03-14 19:01 ` Davide Libenzi
[not found] <local.mail.linux-kernel/Pine.LNX.4.50.0303101139520.1922-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
[not found] ` <local.mail.linux-kernel/20030311142447.GA14931@bjl1.jlokier.co.uk.lucky.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <local.mail.linux-kernel/20030314155947.GD13106@netch.kiev.ua>
2003-03-14 21:43 ` [patch, rfc] lt-epoll ( level triggered epoll ) ... X-Newsgroups: local.mail.linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <local.mail.linux-kernel/Pine.LNX.4.50.0303140845480.1903-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com> Jonathan Lemon
2003-03-14 22:16 ` [patch, rfc] lt-epoll ( level triggered epoll ) Davide Libenzi
2003-03-14 22:27 ` Jonathan Lemon
2003-03-14 22:57 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-14 23:36 ` Jonathan Lemon
2003-03-15 0:06 ` Davide Libenzi
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