Johannes Pfau Wrote: > > Just wondering, as libevent was already brought up on the newsgroup some > time ago, is there a special reason to use libevent instead of libev? > Both seem to be actively developed and liberally licensed (libevent: 3 > Clause BSD libev: 2 Clause BSD), but at least for libevent1 libev claims > to be faster. Some new benchmarks against libevent2 ( > http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/libev/2010q2/001033.html ) show no big > difference in speed anymore (libev is still faster when using timeouts > or many clients). So any special reason to use one rather than the other?
I mentioned libevent simply because I've used it before. From a license standpoint (and features as well), libev is a better choice for Phobos.