[phobos] std.event / event loop for phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

OK, now I see libev seems to be a tad more general. Could we have a 
champion for a Phobos binding layer?

Andrei

On 9/9/10 10:43 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.
>
> Leandro Lucarella has a libev binding&  wrapper for D1, maybe that could
> be adapted for phobos:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=112967
> <http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D&artnum=112967>
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