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[shads]

I've been looking around for a few days trying to understand the guts of bitcoin but between the wiki and the forum there seems to be a lot of gaps.  I'm wondering is some other part of the doco I'm missing or is it just a case of trawling the source code?


e.g. I've been trying to get a proper understanding of how getWork behaves.  Specifically I'm trying to work out if there's a way to get multiple getWorks in a single request.  The API reference on the wiki really just shows how to make a request and the getWork article is pretty thin on details.

Also been trying to figure out long polling.  As in enough info to work out how to make my own long polling request with my own code.  Can someone point me to a proper explanation of long polling?