Re: LibEvent binding to Lua? Mix w/ HelperThreads?

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> > Yeah, this is what I noticed from the sources too. Is your IOCP library
> > compatible to libevent?
>
> No. Libevent API is dependent on (struct timeval) and (fd) and more;
> it expects (fd)s to work a la UNIX. That was too big an impedance
> mismatch for me to bother accommodating.
>
> It may be possible to make a lua wrapper that creates a common API
> between libevent and a Windows IOCP library, but the abstraction would
> have to be carefully designed to avoid these UNIXisms.

I believe we need some C support. I was thinking about creating a
layer in C that implements a libevent-like dispatch loop but that
uses opaque descriptors. Those could be fds on UNIX or HANDLEs on
Windows.

We would also have to adapt Lua's file I/O functions and LuaSocket
functions to integrate well with this abstraction layer.

Regards,
Diego.