Libev and libevent

[josh rotenberg]

I've been doing some non-memcached related stuff with libevent
recently and was also looking at libev as an alternative. libev has a
libevent emulation thinger (basically a tarball of libevent with the
libev stuff in the guts) that supposedly lets you use libevent as you
normally would (with some caveats I believe).

I actually tried compiling memcached against the emulated libevent and
ran my benchmarks and found the standard libevent (1.4.1) was faster.
To be fair, I didn't spend more than 15 minutes looking at it. It
could also be that actually rewriting the event handling stuff in
memcached to use libev directly would be faster and a better
comparison, but FWIW ...

Josh


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Aaron Stone <aaron at serendipity.cx> wrote:
> This is the first log entry for libev's ev.c:
>
>  Revision 1.1 - (view) (download) (as text) (annotate) - [select for
>  diffs]
>  Tue Oct 30 20:59:31 2007 UTC (4 months, 2 weeks ago) by root
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  Branch: MAIN
>  initial roguh cut that doesn't immediately barf
>
>
>  Memcached first became public around 2003. That explains the special
>  reason it doesn't use libev!
>
>  Now, if libev does some spectacularly better stuff that libevent
>  doesn't do, that can benefit memcached, bring it up! Nobody (well,
>  mostly :-p) on the list is averse to discussing useful improvements.
>
>  Aaron
>
>
>
>
>  On Mar 18, 2008, at 7:17 PM, mikhail maluyk wrote:
>
>  > Is there any special reason why memcached is using libevent instead
>  > of libev?
>  > Benchmarks at libev site shows very good performance.
>
>