[zeromq-dev] IPC latency

[Martin Sustrik]

Erik,

> Also note the pipe busy reading lowers latency. It should be possible
> to do the same with poll/select/epoll.

Just to be sure - Do you mean that busy looping with poll:

while (!nevents)
     nevents = poll (fds, timeout=0);

has better latency than blocking poll:

nevents = poll (fds, timeout=INFINITE)

Martin