I assume this means you will be wrapping platform-specific high
performance socket apis. Do you have a wrapper api written up? I'd
be happy to help with IOCP in Win2k.

On 11/3/05, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> Date: November 3 2005
> URL: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/hiper/
>
> Hiper (short for High Performance)
>
> Description
>
> Hiper is the name of the sub-project that intends to bring high performance
> adjustments and additions to the libcurl multi interface.
>
> The aim is to 1) provide a better API for _extremely_ large amounts of
> simultaneous transfers (the c10k problem) and 2) introduce HTTP pipelining
> support. By better API, we mean both better suited to deal with the amount
> of connections (i.e no artificial limits like select() imposes etc), better
> performance-wise by avoiding expensive looping over all file descriptors to
> check for actions and to allow users to pick an underlying event system of
> their own choice.
>
> The sub project has its own new section on the curl web site with all this
> info and more: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/hiper/
>
> Schedule
>
> Daniel intends to work more or less full-time with the Hiper project during
> December 2005. Leftovers will be done part-time in 2006 with possibly some
> further full-time periods during spring 2006.
>
> I'll get back with more specific (release) dates later on.
>
> Funding
>
> Daniel receives funding from the Swedish foundation IIS for the purpose of
> implementing this.
>
> Project Involvement
>
> The plan is to keep the process and progress as open and public as I
> possibly can, to allow anyone and everyone who feels like contributing or
> just watching to do so. This is still curl, this is still open source and I
> still value and appreciate all user feedback and comments.
>
> Source Code Repository
>
> For the sake of being able to be 100% public and open, I will create a
> branch in the CVS repository so that the Hiper experiments and developments
> won't interfere with the "normal" libcurl development.
>
> If you have comments, questions, requests, flames or praise, you know where to
> reach me!
>
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