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-Salticidae: Minimal C++ asynchronous network library.
+Salticidae: minimal C++ asynchronous network library.
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.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg
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- Simplicity. The library is self-contained, small in code base, and only
- relies on libevent and libcrypo (OpenSSL, for SHA256 purpose).
+ relies on libuv and libcrypo (OpenSSL, for SHA256 purpose).
- Clarity. With moderate use of C++ template and new features, the vast
majority of the code is self-documenting.
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- Layered design. You can use network abstraction from the lowest socket
connection level to the highest P2P network level.
-- Performance. The implementation strives to incur very little overhead in processing
+- Performance. Based on a hybrid solution that combines both thread-based and
+ event-driven concurrency paradigms, it gets the best of both worlds.
+ The implementation strives to incur very little overhead in processing
network I/O, and avoid unnecessary memory copies thanks to the move semantics.
- Utilities. The library also provides with some useful gadgets, such as
- command-line parser, libevent abstraction, etc.
+ command-line parser, libuv abstraction, etc.
Functionalities
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- CMake >= 3.9
- C++14
-- libevent
+- libuv
- libcrypto
Example (MsgNetwork layer)