svn commit: r264042 - in head: include lib/libc/gen lib/libc/include lib/libc/stdlib

[Jordan Hubbard]

On Apr 4, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Respectfully, as a developer, why would I want to use libdispatch and
> not libevent? Libevent looks far more portable.

Equally respectfully, if you’re comparing libevent and libdispatch at all, then you’re only getting about 10% of what libdispatch actually is.  The event handling piece is really just a small fraction of it.  For a really nice overview written by someone *not* from Apple, I recommend:  http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/12/

Libdispatch is also highly portable.  I don’t think there’s an OS flavor it *hasn’t* been ported to at this point.

- Jordan