On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:43:43AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:31:26PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > programming w/ libevent is convenient at times, the decision poll vs 
> > libevent should not be made based on performance considerations, 
> > exception beeing the above massive concurrent connection case.
> 
> I spent a lot of time doing libevent stuff for a work project the last
> few weeks and I am in love with the API.  One negative is the poor
> documentation; especially the buffered events docs are inadequate.
> 
> Yes, I read the source :-)  but it would have been a little less painful
> to have a slightly better man page and some standalone examples.
> 
> Negatives aside once you figure it out it allows one to write code that
> doesn't require threading and other complexity inducing stuff.  Yay
> finite state machines!
> 

Yay, I too fell in love with it and it's various API's despite the lack
of documentation for most of them, header help understanding how things 
work but I wasted quite some time on bufferevents ;-)

Gilles


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Gilles Chehade
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