Eventdriven Programming with Libisc

When programs have to do more than one thing, there are two basic ways of doing it: event driven or multi-threaded. In recent years multi-threading has gotten all the publicity and this tutorial tries to level the ground somewhat. A basic introduction will be given to the two methods and their relative merits will be examined.

A real world application of eventdriven programming will be examined and various fine and not so fine sights will be pointed out along the way.

About the Tutor

Poul-Henning Kamp has been hacking FreeBSD for more than a decade and is responsible for a lot of code people use without knowing it, in FreeBSD and elsewhere.

Despite having twice as many hits on Google as Queen Margrete II of Denmark, he still has to make a living by finding solutions to problems and vice versa.

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