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		gugagore 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Streaming vs. Batch” Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I ... Interrupts are a hardware feature on CPUs. You could have software that is effectively checking for events on each tick (clock cycle), and emulates interrupts. But that's what polling is.

smilliken 8 months ago [–]

The operating system provides abstractions for blocking and asynchronous IO, which are the higher abstraction version of the same concept.

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