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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