On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Stef Bon wrote:

>> The 1 millisecond wait is there to make sure you call
>> curl_multi_socket_action() very soon so that libcurl can take care of
>> actions that it wants to do now. Adding new handles have that effect and
>> then libcurl wants to setup and act on the new handle.
>
> Yes the timeout is 1 millisecond, and it has to be called very soon. Is it a
> good idea to call it directly in stead of creating a timer, since it's a
> very short period?

I don't think so.

Why bother with that psuedo-optimization? You will still need the timeout
callback for other (longer) timeouts so you still need to have it there and
set timeouts. I don't see any point in adding a special-case for the 1 ms
timeout.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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