are new benchmarks needed?

[Charles Kerr]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Pedro Melo <melo at simplicidade.org>

> I'm sorry, but while I can see your point that libevent2 is much
> better than libevent and therefore could be on par with libev, and
> that marketing and real quotes sometimes don't add up, you are wrong
> about the benchmark page: they clearly states that this is a
> comparison between libev and libevent, not libevent2.
>
> You seem to be evaluating both to make a decision for your software
> project. I think you are in a perfect condition to write a article
> describing your own comparison between libev and libevent2. (May I
> suggest that you use the same layout as the current libev benchmark?).

Hi Pedro,

To be clear, I haven't run any benchmarks myself -- my inferences
about libevent2 are based on Marc's graphs from the Reloaded thread.
Those graphs do what you're requesting, are in the format you
suggested:

http://i.imgur.com/86CCE.png
http://i.imgur.com/kLfsX.png

cheers,
Charles