Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:54:10 -0400 | From | James Lewis Nance <> | Subject | Re: kqueue microbenchmark results |
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 11:27:09AM -0400, Simon Kirby wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:02:46AM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > ends up making the job of the application harder. A simple example > > to illustrate the point: what if the application does not choose > > to read all the data from an incoming packet? The app now has to
> What applications would do better by postponing some of the reading? > I can't think of any reason off the top of my head why an application > wouldn't want to read everything it can. Doing everything in smaller
I can see this happening if the application does not know how much data is in the buffer, or if the data is being read into a buffer does not have much space left in it.
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