On 8/10/05, Jose <jmalv04_at_[hidden]> wrote:

The asio library really looks quite nice. It appears simple to use, is 100% header-based, doesn't require the use of threads, and uses the most scalable event demultiplexor supplied by the OS (epoll on Linux in the 0.3x version and IOCP on Windows). Its a very nice little library! Thanks for linking to it. I think I'm in love :-)

I've been writing asio apps for a closed-source software company for the last 16 months. With asio, I've written: * a custom HTTP proxy that has been running in production non-stop since October last year * an HTTP<->XMPP gateway * a simple asio-based HTTP load test tool (so I can simulate 20,000 simultaneous HTTP "clients" from a single process) * a publish/subscribe server with a simple binary protocol- am still trying to performance tune other code so I can find the limits of this, so far 500 messages/sec doesn't cause any detectable CPU usage on a 3GHz P4. * A second custom HTTP proxy- this one does some authentication as well. The first application runs on Windows and the rest run on Debian Linux. They all share HTTP/networking code where applicable. All applications use boost::bind and boost::shared_ptr extensively and the publish/subscribe server uses boost::regex to figure out how to route requests. I am addicted to asio. I can't stop using it ;-). Matt