> On May 3, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> On May 1, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Tyler Fleming Cloutier via swift-users >> <swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote: >> >> libuv and libdispatch overlap on functionality quite a bit, but libdispatch >> has the benefit of using a block API instead of a function pointer API, >> which makes memory management easier in Swift. > > I think libdispatch would be the better choice, since it’s what’s going to be > used in Swift’s standard library going forward. > >> However, libuv has many additional features for setting up TCP connections >> and other networking constructs. > > The dispatch_io API lets you use libdispatch with file descriptors, so > working with TCP would just involve making the usual system calls to open the > connection and then creating a dispatch_io_t from the FD. It should just take > a couple of lines of code.
Indeed! https://github.com/TheArtOfEngineering/Edge/blob/master/Sources/TCP.swift > > —Jens
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