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libevent vs Tokio

A side-by-side look at libevent and Tokio. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

libevent

libevent

Development

libevent is an event notification library for developing high performance network servers. It provides APIs for event scheduling that allow callbacks when I/O events occur or after a time delay.

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Tokio

Tokio

Development

Tokio is an open-source asynchronous I/O framework for building scalable network applications in Rust. It provides a runtime for executing asynchronous tasks, doing non-blocking I/O, and a task scheduler.

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