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What does Kitura use for threading and IO in Linux? Is there any library for cross platform asynchronus IO?

• paxcoder 10y ago
  Good question. For networking, Kitura uses Kitura-net, which uses BlueSocket, which in turn uses C library's sockets[1]. On GNU/Linux, this is the GNU C Library, for which a package (Glibc) is provided by the Swift port[2]. For asynchrony they seem to be using libdispatch despite it being "early in the development"[3], but I've also noticed they're wrapping epoll and curl (see 1.B again), so it's hard to gauge the real extent of the hack. [1]: https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura/blob/master/Package.swift#L22 https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura/blob/master/Package.swif... https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-net/blob/master/Package.swift#L27 https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-net/blob/master/Package.... https://github.com/IBM-Swift/BlueSocket/blob/master/Sources/Socket.swift#L1226 https://github.com/IBM-Swift/BlueSocket/blob/master/Sources/... [2] https://swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/ https://swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/ [3] https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch