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Revision 1.183 by root, Thu Oct 14 05:07:04 2010 UTC vs.
Revision 1.187 by root, Thu Oct 21 12:32:47 2010 UTC

1Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop. 1Revision history for libev, a high-performance and full-featured event loop.
2 2
3TODO: ABI??? API????? Changes???
4TODO: EV_USE__XXX default with config, document
5TODO: include ev_xyz_start in each example? 3TODO: include ev_xyz_start in each example?
6TODO: section watcher states/lifetime 4TODO: section watcher states/lifetime
5TODO: use enums //TODO: enum?
7 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading. 6 - "PORTING FROM LIBEV 3.X TO 4.X" (in ev.pod) is recommended reading.
8 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good 7 - ev_embed_stop did not correctly stop the watcher (very good
9 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev). 8 testcase by Vladimir Timofeev).
9 - ev_run will now always update the current loop time - it errornously
10 didn't when idle watchers were active, causing timers not to fire.
10 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire 11 - fix a bug where a timeout of zero caused the timer not to fire
11 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó). 12 in the libevent emulation (testcase by Péter Szabó).
12 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion). 13 - applied win32 fixes by Michael Lenaghan (also James Mansion).
13 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES. 14 - replace EV_MINIMAL by EV_FEATURES.
14 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it 15 - prefer EPOLL_CTL_ADD over EPOLL_CTL_MOD in some more cases, as it
15 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter. 16 seems the former is *much* faster than the latter.
17 - reduce the number of spurious wake-ups with the ports backend.
16 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu). 18 - remove dependency on sys/queue.h on freebsd (patch by Vanilla Hsu).
19 - do async init within ev_async_start, not ev_async_set, which avoids
20 an API quirk where the set function must be called in the C++ API
21 even when there is nothing to set.
17 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue, 22 - add (undocumented) EV_ENABLE when adding events with kqueue,
18 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting 23 this might help with OS X, which seems to need it despite documenting
19 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher). 24 not to need it (helpfully pointed out by Tilghman Lesher).
20 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't 25 - do not use poll by default on freebsd, it's broken (what isn't
21 on freebsd...). 26 on freebsd...).

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