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EventCore
This is a high-performance native event loop abstraction for D, focused on asynchronous I/O and GUI message integration. The API is callback (delegate) based. For a higher level fiber based abstraction, take a look at vibe.d.
Supported drivers and operating systems
Driver | Linux | Windows | macOS | FreeBSD |
---|---|---|---|---|
SelectEventDriver | yes | yes | yes¹ | yes¹ |
EpollEventDriver | yes | — | — | — |
WinAPIEventDriver | — | yes | — | — |
KqueueEventDriver | — | — | yes¹ | yes¹ |
¹ planned, but not currenly implemented
Driver development status
Feature | SelectEventDriver | EpollEventDriver | WinAPIEventDriver | KqueueEventDriver |
---|---|---|---|---|
TCP Sockets | yes | yes | — | — |
UDP Sockets | yes | yes | — | — |
USDS | yes | yes | — | — |
DNS | yes | yes | — | — |
Timers | yes | yes | yes | — |
Events | yes | yes | yes | — |
Unix Signals | yes² | yes² | — | — |
Files | yes | yes | yes | — |
UI Integration | — | — | yes | — |
File watcher | yes² | yes² | yes | — |
² Currently only supported on Linux
Open questions
- Error code reporting
- Adopting existing file descriptors (done for files)
- Enqueued writes