面向事件编程的时候, 经常遇到 poll 这个单词, 该怎么理解?

一般指轮询

也有池的意思，线程池之类的

轮询，什么投票 ╮(╯_╰)╭

#2 说错了 池是 pool

a study in which people are asked for their opinions about a subject or person
可以理解为对所有人进行询问，得到的回复就是 poll 的结果

维基百科上有词条专门解释了这个。我抽取 2 句吧：

1. Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output (I/O), and is also referred to as polled I/O or software-driven I/O.

2. Polling is the process where the computer or controlling device waits for an external device to check for its readiness or state, often with low-level hardware.

简单地说，poll 是(主动地)检查外部设备的(就绪)状态。这里的外部设备不一定指硬件，只要有(多种)状态，都可以拿来 poll 。

就是这个意思 🐶
https://m.bilibili.com/video/av70240504

言简意骇翻译成中文表达应该如何写呢？

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