Heap-based timer implementation (was Re: [Libevent-users] announcing libev, towards a faster and more featureful libevent)

[Scott Lamb]

Nick Mathewson wrote:
> In case anybody here isn't watching the commits list [1], Niels
> applied a patch from Maxim Yegorushkin to make the timeout
> implementation based on a heap, rather than a RB-tree.  Thanks, Maxim!
> 
> This will probably need some testing; if anybody wants to play around
> with it, just check out the SVN trunk [2] and send in any bugs you run
> into, or any improvements that we should make.

Very nice. I hope to see any other internal improvements from libev make 
it into the libevent codebase one at a time in patch form.

And then, perhaps, API changes considered? I have to admit, I have a few 
complaints with the libevent API myself. Maybe all API changes should be 
discussed and you/Niels can determine if it's worth finding a way to 
make a (hopefully backwards compatible) transition?

Best regards,
Scott