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		henning on Oct 27, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Gazillion-user Comet Server With libevent, Part ... libevent has wrappers to languages like perl, so this should be doable in a language that isn't brutally low-level. right?

jgalvez on Oct 27, 2008 [–]

Well, yes, but memory footprint will be higher and speed will decrease slightly. You will also want to leave all the protocol handling (HTTP etc) in C to prevent further slowing down.

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