Re: 2.6.PRE1 is out the door

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:04 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006, Jason Titus wrote:
> > Have you considered using libevent as a way to abstract out the polling
> > method? Seems like it might make porting easier and give you kqueue as
> > well...
> >
> > http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
>
> Yup. People keep pointing libevent at me. The main trouble:
>
> * I'd still have to spend time working on code;
> * If I used libevent then I'd want to rip out a lot of the squid comm code,
> resulting in even more work required;
> * I've got exams coming up. :)
>
> I'd be very happy if someone else did it though!

Also, from what I saw, its not structured to do some of the stuff that I
have planned, like integrating N event loops at once. If I can I'll make
libevent one of the cooperating ones. Doing multiple loops is useful for
integrating tightly e.g. with the threaded disk layer.

Rob

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