--- libev/README 2007/11/01 17:38:17 1.9 +++ libev/README 2007/11/12 01:23:21 1.16 @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ -libev is a high-performanc3 event loop/event model with lots of features. +Homepage: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev +E-Mail: libev@schmorp.de + +libev is a high-performance event loop/event model with lots of features. It is modelled (very losely) after libevent (http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/) and the Event perl module, but aims @@ -6,7 +9,8 @@ DIFFERENCES AND COMPARISON TO LIBEVENT: -(comparisons relative to libevent-1.3e and libev-0.00) +(comparisons relative to libevent-1.3e and libev-0.00, see also the benchmark +at http://libev.schmorp.de/bench.html). - multiple watchers can wait for the same event without deregistering others, both for file descriptors as well as signals. @@ -27,9 +31,6 @@ - detects time jumps and adjusts timers (works for both forward and backward time jumps and also for absolute timers). -- can correctly remove timers while executing callbacks - (libevent doesn't handle this reliably and can crash). - - race-free signal processing (libevent may delay processing signals till after the next event). @@ -66,13 +67,17 @@ - a event.h compatibility header exists, and can be used to run a wide range of libevent programs unchanged (such as evdns.c). -whats missing? +- win32 compatibility for the core parts. -- evbuffer, evhttp, bufferevent are missing. +- the event core library (ev and event layer) compiles and works both as + C and C++. -- no priority support at the moment (but likely to be delivered later). +whats missing? -- kqueue, poll (libev currently implements epoll and select). +- no event-like priority support at the moment (the ev priorities + are not yet finished and work differently, but you can use idle watchers + to get a similar effect). -- windows support (whats windows?). +AUTHOR +libev was written and designed by Marc Lehmann and Emanuele Giaquinta.