In this post I'll show you how to implement really fast polling using C and libevent, memcached and nginx. The performance of the server is over 2400 request pr. second on a not optimized Mac Book - that's 144.000 requests pr. minute. At Plurk we use polling and we have thousands of live users hammering the service with poll requests. It's beginning to be pretty expensive so I set a goal to optimize it. We currently use this approach in production and it uses around 2% of CPU and _very_ little memory.
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RawThinkTank replied ago:
Developers cant care about performance , its all about the development time/speed.
You need to focus on Vala, anything happening there must be more productive due to the latest features in that language.
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