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Long polling is a method used by some Bitcoin pools by which notifications are sent to all miners when a valid block has been generated and added to the blockchain.  This serves the purpose of stopping work on the old block and beginning to work on a fresh block, thus reducing the production of [[stale shares]].
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Without long polling, if a miner was in the middle of an assigned workload when a new block was discovered by someone else, it would continue working on the old obsolete block solution until it was finished - thus wasting effort.
 

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