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Re: [mosquitto-dev] Multithreading
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Pagliughi" <fpagliughi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "General development discussions for the mosquitto project" <mosquitto-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Wiebe Cazemier"
> <wiebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, 13 October, 2019 15:56:11
> Subject: Re: [mosquitto-dev] Multithreading
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> I was just wondering about this recently for a different project. The
> Rust language has a library called "mio" (for Metal I/O) which is just a
> thin, low-level wrapper around epoll and it's related functionality on
> other platforms (kqueue and IOCP). So it creates a platform independent,
> high performance, asynchronous base for heavy I/O application.
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> So I was wondering if something like this were available in C/C++, and
> if not, would it be worth porting mio over. It's only about 8k lines of
> Rust.
>
> Frank
That's why I suggested libevent.
But, to stay with Mosquitto's light-weight philosophy and not introduce a bulk of code or dependencies, I think we can create our own wrappers that that allow for a bit more implementation agnostic programming, instead of one while loop with a lot of #ifdefs.
