Charles-François Natali added the comment: >> This problem affects any single use of select(): instead of using an >> ad-hoc wrapper in each module, it would probably make sense to add a >> higher level selector class to the select module which would fallback on >> the right syscall (i.e. poll() if available, or /dev/poll on Solaris- >> like). > > Doesn't Solaris have poll()? If so then I don't see why one would want to > use /dev/poll in the single fd case.
Because it offers better performance than poll(): you don't have to keep passing the FD at each syscall (note that I'm not talking about the signal FD case, but about a generic polling API). Also note that microbenchmarks with one FD isn't really meaningful, since in real life the FD won't be ready at least part of the time: like Antoine, I think that worrying about performance impact is really a premature optimization (unless real benchmarks prove otherwise). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10527> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
