Network I/O and streaming in D2

[Sean Kelly]

Johannes Pfau Wrote:
>
> Just wondering, as libevent was already brought up on the newsgroup some
> time ago, is there a special reason to use libevent instead of libev?
> Both seem to be actively developed and liberally licensed (libevent: 3
> Clause BSD libev: 2 Clause BSD), but at least for libevent1 libev claims
> to be faster. Some new benchmarks against libevent2 (
> http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/libev/2010q2/001033.html ) show no big
> difference in speed anymore (libev is still faster when using timeouts
> or many clients). So any special reason to use one rather than the other?

I mentioned libevent simply because I've used it before.  From a license standpoint (and features as well), libev is a better choice for Phobos.