Libev is a high-performance event loop for C (with optional and separate interfaces for C++ and Perl), featuring support for I/O, timers (relative and absolute, cron-like ones), signals, process status changes, and other types of events. It has both a fast native API and libevent emulation to support programs written using the libevent API. Differences to libevent include higher speed, simpler design, more features, less memory usage, embedability, and no arbitrary limits. libev supports epoll, kqueue, Solaris event ports, poll, and select.
Changes: This release fixes a larger number of minor portability issues and bugs. It also disables signalfd usage by default, as too much software is broken and gets confused by blocked signals (e.g. glib’s threadpool). On the feature side, ev_stat watchers now guarantee a difference between previous and current stats, libev will take advantage of inotify_init1 if available, idle watchers can now be disabled when embedding, and the C++ API now has an ev::timer->remaining () method.
Tags: Software Development, Libraries, Application Frameworks, Perl Modules, Networking
Licenses: BSD Revised