X-Git-Url: https://git.llucax.com/software/libev.git/blobdiff_plain/86521c1ef67d371e724e4419f5100dc0da641194..9a8ae42b42c41e9adaf6de38319d2c71a2d67758:/ev.pod?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod index 26d837b..c5d2b5f 100644 --- a/ev.pod +++ b/ev.pod @@ -598,12 +598,14 @@ overhead for the actual polling but can deliver many events at once. By setting a higher I you allow libev to spend more time collecting I/O events, so you can handle more events per iteration, at the cost of increasing latency. Timeouts (both C and -C) will be not affected. +C) will be not affected. Setting this to a non-null bvalue will +introduce an additional C call into most loop iterations. Likewise, by setting a higher I you allow libev to spend more time collecting timeouts, at the expense of increased latency (the watcher callback will be called later). C watchers -will not be affected. +will not be affected. Setting this to a non-null value will not introduce +any overhead in libev. Many (busy) programs can usually benefit by setting the io collect interval to a value near C<0.1> or so, which is often enough for