Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi Aran, > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Aran Donohue <aran.dono...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the excellent links, that's exactly what I wanted. It's > interesting that they've chosen not to base the new work on > libevent. > > The reason was mostly performance concerns due to libev(ent) using > callbacks to signal events. Callbacks from C into Haskell can be > inefficient. From the FFI addendum:
Anecdotally, I can confirm this; we're using the FFI binding to libev in a project and for typical workloads it's actually a little slower than the plain-jane select()-based Haskell version. It scales better as you add connections of course. G -- Gregory Collins <g...@gregorycollins.net> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
