[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Event loop

[Lynne]

Feb 18, 2021, 16:43 by george at nsup.org:

> Lynne (12021-02-17):
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>> It's more actively developed by a large margin, and I generally
>>
>
> This is an interesting argument.
>
>> prefer its API and how it works internally.
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>
> Can you give more details? Which differences make you prefer it?
>
> One of the things that I like about libev is that it makes effort to be
> efficient and simple in terms of allocating data structures. No such
> thing as always dynamically allocating stuff like the Gnome projects, so
> much that it looks more like Java than C. We can have the libev
> structures directly in our own data structures.
>
> Is libuv similar in that respect?
>
> The fact that it is designed to run the interpreter of a language with a
> garbage collector worries me.
>

I found this document useful:
https://gist.github.com/andreybolonin/2413da76f088e2c5ab04df53f07659ea

Although it's main user was node.js, it's now used in dozens upon dozens
of different non-language projects, some of which get featured here:
https://github.com/libuv/libuv/wiki/Projects-that-use-libuv

It also has plenty of bindings, so projects don't have to invent their
own C bindings.
Most high-level users have long since moved to asynchronous event
processing on threads, so having a synchronous single-threaded
implementation seems like somewhat behind with the times.