[phobos] std.event / event loop for phobos

[Sean Kelly]

On Sep 9, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:

> On 09.09.2010 15:57, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I don't know much about licence, but I have this question: which is
>> better, libev or libevent?
>> 
> Libev is faster than libevent1 (http://libev.schmorp.de/bench.html) But
> libevent2 (currently in RC state) is said to be as fast as libev, so
> that doesn't really matter. The biggest difference between the libraries
> is the set of event sources they support: Libevent supports i/o and
> timeouts, libev additionally supports "wall clock timers", events on
> posix signals, child process changes, stat events (file changed /
> directory changed,...) and a few more.
> The licenses are almost the same (3 clause BSD for libevent, 2 clause
> BSD for libev).
> 
> I've read through the documentation of libev and think it has a nice api
> and feature set. I have to admit that I have not yet used libev or
> libevent personally though, so I can't really give you a good
> comparison. Sean posted somewhere in the newsgroup that he had used
> libevent, so maybe he can give more information.

libev looks nicer than libevent, but either one would be fine.  I'm more interested in finding one with a compatible license, really.