Asynchronous I/O on Mac OS X

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Hi,

Meaning the C10K problem, what is the best way to do asynch I/O on Mac OS X (assume to use on Mac and iPhone/iPad)?

On Linux our choice is epoll, on Windows is I/O Completion Ports.

Top priority is performance and scalability (thousands of connections).

Thanks

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