[Haskell-cafe] whatever happened to sendFile?

[Jason Dusek]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Right. I intended that to be a heads-up in both directions:
>  it is not simply a library convenience function, so one needs
> to think about when to use it.  In particular, it's possible
> that overuse of sendfile() in the wrong circumstances will
> create additional system load instead of reducing it.

  Can you say more about this? I assume that sending static
  images back and forth is a good fit for sendfile().

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