On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:43:43AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > 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 -- Gilles Chehade http://www.poolp.org/
