OpenJDK 6/7 kqueue based NIO provider

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Sunday 31 January 2010 10:39:38 James Mansion wrote:
> Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> > From a cursory read of the code it can be seen that the existing Sun
> > implementations (even the shared part of the code) assumes poll like
> > back-ends. This is not a very good match for kqueue because it differs
> > (in a
>
> Would it be worth looking at an implementation that uses libev or libevent?

That is an interesting idea, such an implementation could potentially replace 
all existing back-ends with the exception of the Windows IOCP back-end. 
However libev doesn't seem to provide a non-blocking poll which is required 
for NIO (ev_loop always blocks AFAIK).

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Pieter