Phil Eaton 11/23/2022

A Programmer-Friendly I/O Abstraction Over io_uring and kqueue

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This technical article delves into modern I/O abstraction for high-performance applications. It compares traditional blocking I/O with advanced interfaces like io_uring (Linux) and kqueue (FreeBSD/macOS), explaining how they batch operations and reduce system call overhead. The piece includes a practical code example of a minimal TCP echo server to illustrate the concepts, targeting programmers interested in systems-level performance optimization.

A Programmer-Friendly I/O Abstraction Over io_uring and kqueue

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