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1Homepage: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev
2E-Mail: libev@schmorp.de
3
1libev is a high-performance event loop/event model with lots of features. 4libev is a high-performance event loop/event model with lots of features.
2 5
3It is modelled (very losely) after libevent 6It is modelled (very losely) after libevent
4(http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/) and the Event perl module, but aims 7(http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/) and the Event perl module, but aims
5to be faster and more correct, and also more featureful. 8to be faster and more correct, and also more featureful.
62- doesn't rely on nonportable BSD header files. 65- doesn't rely on nonportable BSD header files.
63 66
64- a event.h compatibility header exists, and can be used to run a wide 67- a event.h compatibility header exists, and can be used to run a wide
65 range of libevent programs unchanged (such as evdns.c). 68 range of libevent programs unchanged (such as evdns.c).
66 69
70- win32 compatibility for the core parts.
71
72- the event core library (ev and event layer) compiles and works both as
73 C and C++.
74
67whats missing? 75whats missing?
68 76
69- evbuffer, evhttp, bufferevent are missing. 77- no event-like priority support at the moment (the ev priorities
78 are not yet finished and work differently, but you can use idle watchers
79 to get a similar effect).
70 80
71- no priority support at the moment (but likely to be delivered later). 81AUTHOR
72 82
73- kqueue, poll (libev currently implements epoll and select). 83libev was written and designed by Marc Lehmann and Emanuele Giaquinta.
74 84
75- windows support (whats windows?). 85The following people sent in patches or made other noteworthy
86contributions (if I forgot to include you, please shout at me, it was an
87accident):
76 88
89W.C.A. Wijngaards
90Christopher Layne
91Chris Brody
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