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-libev is a high-performanc3 event loop/event model with lots of features.
+Homepage: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev
+E-Mail: libev@schmorp.de
+
+libev is a high-performance event loop/event model with lots of features.
 
 It is modelled (very losely) after libevent
 (http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/) and the Event perl module, but aims
@@ -6,7 +9,8 @@ to be faster and more correct, and also more featureful.
 
 DIFFERENCES AND COMPARISON TO LIBEVENT:
 
-(comparisons relative to libevent-1.3e and libev-0.00)
+(comparisons relative to libevent-1.3e and libev-0.00, see also the benchmark
+at http://libev.schmorp.de/bench.html).
 
 - multiple watchers can wait for the same event without deregistering others,
   both for file descriptors as well as signals.
@@ -27,9 +31,6 @@ DIFFERENCES AND COMPARISON TO LIBEVENT:
 - detects time jumps and adjusts timers
   (works for both forward and backward time jumps and also for absolute timers).
 
-- can correctly remove timers while executing callbacks
-  (libevent doesn't handle this reliably and can crash).
-
 - race-free signal processing
   (libevent may delay processing signals till after the next event).
 
@@ -66,13 +67,26 @@ DIFFERENCES AND COMPARISON TO LIBEVENT:
 - a event.h compatibility header exists, and can be used to run a wide
   range of libevent programs unchanged (such as evdns.c).
 
+- win32 compatibility for the core parts.
+
+- the event core library (ev and event layer) compiles and works both as
+  C and C++.
+
 whats missing?
 
-- evbuffer, evhttp, bufferevent are missing.
+- no event-like priority support at the moment (the ev priorities
+  are not yet finished and work differently, but you can use idle watchers
+  to get a similar effect).
+
+AUTHOR
 
-- no priority support at the moment (but likely to be delivered later).
+libev was written and designed by Marc Lehmann and Emanuele Giaquinta.
 
-- kqueue, poll (libev currently implements epoll and select).
+The following people sent in patches or made other noteworthy
+contributions (if I forgot to include you, please shout at me, it was an
+accident):
 
-- windows support (whats windows?).
+W.C.A. Wijngaards
+Christopher Layne
+Chris Brody