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Re: What is bundled libevent library for?

 

On 17 Nov 2013, at 19:13, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Pavel!
> 
> On Nov 16, Pavel Ivanov wrote:
>> Sergei,
>> 
>> Do you know why MariaDB sources have libevent library bundled with
>> them? I don't see it being used anywhere. I see it was added in this
>> commit by Monty
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/10.0/revision/3492.3.1,
>> but even in that commit I can't find any usages of the library.
>> So should it be removed from MariaDB?
> 
> Yes. I can do that.
> 
> I came with 5.6 merge, and in 5.6 libevent is used by memcached plugin.
> 

Aren't we planning on actually ensuring that we have the memached innodb plugin? From what I understand, Oracle has put more effort into this in 5.7, and the latest milestone release may even have it performing faster than memcached itself (source: Tomas Ulin keynote, Percona Live London, last week)

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