Is 'epoll' the essential reason that Tornadoweb(or Nginx) is so fast?
- by Mickey Shine
Tornadoweb and Nginx are popular web servers for the moment and many benchmarkings show that they have a better performance than Apache under certain circumstances. So my question is:
Is 'epoll' the most essential reason that make them so fast? And what can I learn from that if I want to write a good socket server?