Top 3 C Asynchronous Event Loop Projects

libuv

75 23,219 9.1 C

Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

Project mention: Epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-11

libevent

12 10,708 8.7 C

Event notification library

Project mention: Epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-11

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libev

4 1,540 0.0 C

Full-featured high-performance event loop loosely modelled after libevent

Project mention: Polyphony: Fine-Grained Concurrency for Ruby | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-12

Thank you for this.
I am interested in how concurrency can be represented elegantly and efficiently, so I am interested in how libraries can simplify async and make it easier to reason about and write
The libev and ioring support is great for IO scalability (https://github.com/enki/libev not sure if this is the official repo)
In Python I use the "select" module and use epoll on Linux.
I am currently thinking of designing an API that allows the registration of epoll-like listeners to arbitrary objects, including business objects, so you can efficiently register a listener on multiple behaviours of multiple arbitrary objects.
I wrote an async/await simulation in Java and my scheduler is really simple, it's just a for loop that checks to see if there are any tasks that can progress. I notice the switch_fiber in polyphony must do something similar. This is similar to a yield in a coroutine.
My async/await simulation takes the following program:
  task1:

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