[zeromq-dev] Application loop methods

[Arnaud Loonstra]

On 01/02/2014 04:22 PM, Arnaud Loonstra wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was reading through czmq's zloop class and wondering what methods
> exists for creating application loops. I'm used to using frameworks
> which handle these so I'm not really 'under the hood' often. From what I
> can tell zeroMQ uses filedescriptor polling a lot
> (select/poll/epoll/kqueue?) zloop also uses timed events.
>
> QT/GTK have there own event system, QT uses signals but I think they are
> the same as events. I've also read about using (unix) signals for
> handling loops.
>
> It seems select, poll, epoll and kqueue are very efficient. What methods
> exist more? What do people advice or use most frequently?

If anybody is interested I've implemented a ZeroMQ eventloop for Urwid 
(curses based UI library for Python). As I found Urwid uses select 
polling it was quite easy to make a ZeroMQ version. Urwid also ships 
with a Glib and Twisted eventloop.

https://gist.github.com/sphaero/8225315

Tested on Linux, Python3

Rg,

Arnaud

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