Comparing libevent and libuv. My upfront biased: I want to like libevent. However, I want to objectively compare the two and make an informed decision.
- libevent 2.0.22 (Stable) [2014-01-05]
- libuv 1.8.0 (Stable) [2015-12-15]
Latency Comparison Numbers | |
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns | |
Branch mispredict 5 ns | |
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache | |
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns | |
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache | |
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns | |
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 0.01 ms | |
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 0.15 ms |
" VIM Configuration File | |
" Description: Optimized for C/C++ development, but useful also for other things. | |
" Author: Gerhard Gappmeier | |
" | |
" set UTF-8 encoding | |
set enc=utf-8 | |
set fenc=utf-8 | |
set termencoding=utf-8 | |
" disable vi compatibility (emulation of old bugs) |