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The parents are saying that a transformation target that supports IOCP is easier to support than one that supports epoll.

Think about this the way that you might think about GCC backends -- some architectures make certain things easier than others.

Or how an abstraction layer like MonoGame papers over the fundamental differences between OpenGL and DirectX -- some abstractions perform better with one or the other subsystem.



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