This is a benchmark example, extracted from libevent and ported to eventxx.
 
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config.h"
#endif
 
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/signal.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <cassert>
#include <cerrno>
#include <vector>
 
#include <eventxx>
 
 
static int count, writes, fired;
static int *pipes;
static unsigned num_pipes, num_active, num_writes;
static std::vector< eventxx::cevent* > events;
 
 
void
read_cb(int fd, short which, void *arg)
{
        size_t idx = (size_t) arg, widx = idx + 1;
        u_char ch;
 
        count += read(fd, &ch, sizeof(ch));
        if (writes) {
                if (widx >= num_pipes)
                        widx -= num_pipes;
                write(pipes[2 * widx + 1], "e", 1);
                writes--;
                fired++;
        }
}
 
run_once(void)
{
        size_t i;
        int *cp, space;
 
        for (cp = pipes, i = 0; i < num_pipes; i++, cp += 2) {
        }
 
 
        fired = 0;
        space = num_pipes / num_active;
        space = space * 2;
        for (i = 0; i < num_active; i++, fired++)
                write(pipes[i * space + 1], "e", 1);
 
        count = 0;
        writes = num_writes;
        {
                int xcount = 0;
                gettimeofday(&ts, NULL);
                do {
                        d.
dispatch(EVLOOP_ONCE | EVLOOP_NONBLOCK);
 
                        xcount++;
                } while (count != fired);
                gettimeofday(&te, NULL);
 
                if (xcount != count) fprintf(stderr, "Xcount: %d, Rcount: %d\n", xcount, count);
        }
 
        timersub(&te, &ts, &te);
 
        for (i = 0; i < num_pipes; i++) {
                delete events[i];
        }
        events.clear();
 
        return (&te);
}
 
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
        struct rlimit rl;
        size_t i;
        int c, *cp;
        extern char *optarg;
 
        num_pipes = 100;
        num_active = 1;
        num_writes = num_pipes;
        while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "n:a:w:")) != -1) {
                switch (c) {
                case 'n':
                        num_pipes = atoi(optarg);
                        break;
                case 'a':
                        num_active = atoi(optarg);
                        break;
                case 'w':
                        num_writes = atoi(optarg);
                        break;
                default:
                        fprintf(stderr, "Illegal argument \"%c\"\n", c);
                        exit(1);
                }
        }
 
        rl.rlim_cur = rl.rlim_max = num_pipes * 2 + 50;
        if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl) == -1) {
                perror("setrlimit");
                exit(1);
        }
 
        pipes = new int[num_pipes * 2];
 
        for (cp = pipes, i = 0; i < num_pipes; i++, cp += 2) {
#ifdef USE_PIPES
                if (pipe(cp) == -1) {
#else
                if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, cp) == -1) {
#endif
                        perror("pipe");
                        exit(1);
                }
        }
 
        for (i = 0; i < 25; i++) {
                tv = run_once();
                assert(tv);
                fprintf(stdout, "%ld\n",
                        tv->
sec() * 1000000L + tv->
usec());
 
        }
 
        delete[] pipes;
 
        exit(0);
}
@ READ
Read event.
Definition: eventxx:194
 
@ PERSIST
Not really an event, is an event modifier.
Definition: eventxx:197
 
@ NONBLOCK
Don't block the event loop.
Definition: eventxx:101
 
@ ONCE
Loop just once.
Definition: eventxx:100
 
Event dispatcher.
Definition: eventxx:549
 
void del(basic_event &e)
Removes an event.
Definition: eventxx:738
 
int dispatch(int flags=0)
Main dispatcher loop.
Definition: eventxx:764
 
void add(basic_event &e, int priority=DEFAULT_PRIORITY)
Adds an event to the dispatcher.
Definition: eventxx:588
 
This is the specialization of eventxx::event for C-style callbacks.
Definition: eventxx:336
 
Time used for timeout values.
Definition: eventxx:111
 
long sec() const
Gets the number of seconds.
Definition: eventxx:127
 
long usec() const
Gets the number of microseconds.
Definition: eventxx:134