Fast-Servers

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descriptor and state that the file descriptor is in. At one point it was in vogue to actually fork() so that all perform the same task and rely on the kernel to schedule file descriptors to them. using a wrapper like libevent which just encourages the same slow design people have been using for over twenty years now. from one state to another involves passing the file descriptor to the epoll/kqueue fd of the other thread. into the 100k requests/second territory on modern systems. Sometimes reserving some cores make sense, so let the user lower this number.

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