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| -rw-r--r-- | ev.pod | 15 |
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@@ -100,13 +100,14 @@ watcher. Libev supports C<select>, C<poll>, the Linux-specific C<epoll>, the BSD-specific C<kqueue> and the Solaris-specific event port mechanisms for file descriptor events (C<ev_io>), the Linux C<inotify> interface -(for C<ev_stat>), relative timers (C<ev_timer>), absolute timers -with customised rescheduling (C<ev_periodic>), synchronous signals -(C<ev_signal>), process status change events (C<ev_child>), and event -watchers dealing with the event loop mechanism itself (C<ev_idle>, -C<ev_embed>, C<ev_prepare> and C<ev_check> watchers) as well as -file watchers (C<ev_stat>) and even limited support for fork events -(C<ev_fork>). +(for C<ev_stat>), Linux eventfd/signalfd (for faster and cleaner +inter-thread wakeup (C<ev_async>)/signal handling (C<ev_signal>)) relative +timers (C<ev_timer>), absolute timers with customised rescheduling +(C<ev_periodic>), synchronous signals (C<ev_signal>), process status +change events (C<ev_child>), and event watchers dealing with the event +loop mechanism itself (C<ev_idle>, C<ev_embed>, C<ev_prepare> and +C<ev_check> watchers) as well as file watchers (C<ev_stat>) and even +limited support for fork events (C<ev_fork>). It also is quite fast (see this L<benchmark|http://libev.schmorp.de/bench.html> comparing it to libevent |