ideas for C optimization wanted

[Colin D Bennett]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:16:53 +1200
Michael Hudson <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:

> Martin Pool wrote:
> > Tim said to me he was interested in doing some C or Pyrex code to
> > speed up Bazaar, and asked for suggestions on where to begin.
> 
> ...it reminded me that socket programming in C is horrible
> so I'm not sure I'm going to go anywhere with this.
> 
> Cheers,
> mwh

I haven't used it myself, but I've heard that the Boost C++ 'asio'
library provides a much improved socket interface (using C++ I/O
streams).  See an example at:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/boost_asio/tutorial/tutdaytime1.html

C++ should be essentially as fast as C in this case, since there would
be no huge libraries to load at runtime.  The Boost asio library is
composed solely of header files.

Just thought I'd throw this out there.

Regards,
Colin