On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Nick Mathewson <ni...@freehaven.net> wrote: [...] > * Include both backends; make the non-changelist backend on by > default. The problems here are that a) the non-changelist backend is > slower, and most people won't do whatever is necessary to activate the > faster one, and b) the non-changelist backend has had not nearly so > much testing as the current changelist-based backend. If we do this, > the lack of testing means we cannot possibly call 2.0.9 > "2.0.9-stable"; we'll need to call it "-rc" instead. :/ > > I am currently leaning towards the last option. Efficiency is > important, but even more important is knowing that if you wrote a > program using Libevent version N, your program will still work when > Libevent N+1 is released. Setting an option to enable extra > performance is more important than setting an option to enable > backward compatibility.
Based on comments here, I'm reasonably sure that this is the right answer. It's implemented in the git master branch. 2.0.9-rc should be out really soon; I'd appreciate anybody who uses the epoll backed to look for regressions now if they can spare the time... or at the very least to check out 2.0.9-rc on its release to make sure that bugs get found before -stable. Also, I'm going to be light on email for the rest of this week: I'm taking a break for the US holiday, and trying not to spend the whole time online. peace, -- Nick *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
