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		paul on Sept 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twisted.web vs Tornado, a Performance test It will also use Python 2.6's native epoll (see line 326 of http://github.com/facebook/tornado/blob/9a8bd2fb6fd6279be16d...)

old-gregg on Sept 11, 2009 [–]

Does this mean Python's own HTTPServer uses epoll starting v2.6?

paul on Sept 12, 2009 | [–]

No, not that I'm aware of. It simply means that Python 2.6 makes the epoll system call available directly without need for a custom module.

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