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libev is a high-performance event loop/event model with lots of features.
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(see benchmark at http://libev.schmorp.de/bench.html)
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ABOUT
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Homepage: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev
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Mailinglist: libev@lists.schmorp.de
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http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libev
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Library Documentation: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod
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Libev is modelled (very losely) after libevent and the Event perl
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module, but is faster, scales better and is more correct, and also more
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featureful. And also smaller. Yay.
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Some of the specialties of libev not commonly found elsewhere are:
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- extensive and detailed, readable documentation (not doxygen garbage).
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- fully supports fork, can detect fork in various ways and automatically
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re-arms kernel mechanisms that do not support fork.
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- highly optimised select, poll, epoll, kqueue and event ports backends.
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- filesystem object (path) watching (with optional linux inotify support).
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- wallclock-based times (using absolute time, cron-like).
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- relative timers/timeouts (handle time jumps).
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- fast intra-thread communication between multiple
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event loops (with optional fast linux eventfd backend).
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- extremely easy to embed.
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- very small codebase, no bloated library.
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- fully extensible by being able to plug into the event loop,
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integrate other event loops, integrate other event loop users.
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- very little memory use (small watchers, small event loop data).
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- optional C++ interface allowing method and function callbacks
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at no extra memory or runtime overhead.
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- optional Perl interface with similar characteristics (capable
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of running Glib/Gtk2 on libev, interfaces with Net::SNMP and
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libadns).
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- support for other languages (multiple C++ interfaces, D, Ruby,
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Python) available from third-parties.
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Examples of programs that embed libev: the EV perl module,
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rxvt-unicode, gvpe (GNU Virtual Private Ethernet), the Deliantra MMORPG
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server (http://www.deliantra.net/), Rubinius (a next-generation Ruby
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VM), the Ebb web server, the Rev event toolkit.
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CONTRIBUTORS
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libev was written and designed by Marc Lehmann and Emanuele Giaquinta.
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The following people sent in patches or made other noteworthy
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contributions to the design (for minor patches, see the Changes
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file. If I forgot to include you, please shout at me, it was an
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accident):
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W.C.A. Wijngaards
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Christopher Layne
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Chris Brody
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