Just wondering, how does a LibEvent binding into Lua sound? Right now it seems to be a good option/addition to the HelperThreads library for my MoonLog application (syslog/metalog replacement). Basically you set up file descriptor events that LibEvent will watch for (such as socket readiness, file has data available, etc... using the 'best' method available, be it EPoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, poll,...) and will dispatch event handlers for you... However you must run a dispatch loop of sorts (either theirs or roll-your-own). Does anyone have any idea of a good interface to Lua? For HelperThreads, are there any ideas on how to best merge these together... since basically there has to be a merged interface... or a combined dispatch loop (alternating between HelperThreads waiting and LibEvent waiting). ... Another idea I thought of at this later hour is to have HelperThreads be the core... and setup a task/thread as the LibEvent dispatch loop... and whenever there's events, either signal_task and wait, or queue up the data in a threadsafe queue and signal_task(0). When the update handler gets called, the queue gets transferred somehow (either by returning an object w/ a CClosure that can access the latest queue objects and then free the data via __gc and/or :free()) -- Thomas Harning Jr. Fortune: Against his wishes, a math teacher's classroom was remodeled. Ever since, he's been talking about the good old dais. His students planted a small orchard in his honor; the trees all have square roots.
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