drush66 wrote > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Janko Mivšek <
> janko.mivsek@ > >wrote: > Title: libev integration in Pharo image and VM > > Description: libev (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html) is high > performance event loop library > helps handling large number of concurrent connections and sources of async > events. It has been used > for a long time as networking library of Node.js. To be used in Pharo > suitable interface in image and quite > possibly in VM would be needed. > > ... > > Benefits to the Community: Having efficient event driven library available > in Smalltalk would open possibility of writing efficient > servers in Smalltalk that can handle large number of concurrent > connections. Having an efficient event loop would give us a great tool to handle concurrent connections in a evented manner. Doing those with blocks and objects will be a pleasure. But please consider Node.js is using libuv now (https://github.com/joyent/libuv), as a common layer for most platforms. Regards -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/More-GSoC-ideas-wanted-3-days-left-tp4678354p4678494.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
