Re: POE::XS::Loop::Poll (again)

Tony Cook (Mon 08/04/08 22:39):
> In the spirit of POE::XS::Queue::Array, I've released
> POE::XS::Loop::Poll, an implementation of POE's event loop written in
> C.
> 
> I haven't done any speed benchmarks (or found any), but I expect it to
> be slightly lower overhead than the built-in POE::Loop::Select.
> 
> Of course, without a benchmark it can only be a guess.
> 
> Unfortunately, due to an apparent limitation with Darwin's poll(2)
> implementation you can't use this loop with ttys under Darwin.[1]
> 
> The nopaste bot on irc.perl.org has been using POE::XS::Loop::Poll
> since the 0.005 release.
> 
> Tony
> 
> [1] From poll(2):
>   BUGS
>      The poll() system call currently does not support devices.
> which is kind of vague, but calls result in POLLNVAL set for the tty fds.

Does API::Peek report this loop properly?  I can't seem to verify that
POE is using XS::Loop::Poll or not.

Zach