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 libev is modelled after libevent (http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/), but aims
 to be faster and more correct, and also more featureful. Examples:
 
 libev is modelled after libevent (http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/), but aims
 to be faster and more correct, and also more featureful. Examples:
 

-- multiple watchers can wait for the same event without deregistering others.
+(comparisons relative to libevent-1.3e and libev-0.00)
+
+- multiple watchers can wait for the same event without deregistering others,
+  both for file descriptors as well as signals.

   (registering two read events on fd 10 and unregistering one will not
   break the other)
 
   (registering two read events on fd 10 and unregistering one will not
   break the other)
 


@@ -22,6 +25,9 @@ to be faster and more correct, and also more featureful. Examples:
 - can correctly remove timers while executing callbacks
   (libevent doesn't handle this reliably and can crash)
 
 - 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)
+

 - less calls to epoll_ctl
   (stopping and starting an io watcher between two loop iterations will now
   result in spuriois epoll_ctl calls)
 - less calls to epoll_ctl
   (stopping and starting an io watcher between two loop iterations will now
   result in spuriois epoll_ctl calls)


@@ -46,14 +52,18 @@ to be faster and more correct, and also more featureful. Examples:
 
 - simpler design, backends are potentially much simpler
   (in libevent, backends have to deal with watchers, thus the problems)
 
 - simpler design, backends are potentially much simpler
   (in libevent, backends have to deal with watchers, thus the problems)

-  (epoll backend in libevent: 366 lines, libev: 89 lines, and more features)
+  (epoll backend in libevent: 366 lines, libev: 90 lines, and more features)
+
+- libev handles EBADF gracefully by removing the offending fds.

 
 whats missing?
 
 - evdns, evhttp, bufferevent are missing, libev is only an even library at
   the moment.
 
 
 whats missing?
 
 - evdns, evhttp, bufferevent are missing, libev is only an even library at
   the moment.
 

-- no priority support at the moment.
+- no priority support at the moment
+
+- kqueue, poll (libev currently implements epoll and select)

 
 

-- kqueue, poll (libev currently implements epoll and select).
+- windows support (whats windows?)