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em1897@aol.com writes:

> Polling is simply unecessary in most cases. You could get
> better performance using an em driver and setting max
> ints to whatever is optimal for your system. Polling adds
> latency and over head for no good reason.

Polling often provides better performance, at the expense of higher
overhead.

-- 
Anthony