[mrb]

What do you mean by "inherently multithreaded"? I have written a network application handling 100-500k TCP concurrent connections using libev. It was multithreaded to distribute the number of connections evenly per thread (typically from 10k to 100k connections per thread). This is a model that is perfectly supported by libev. And I observed a nice linear scaling of the network throughput with the number of cores since my jobs were also purely CPU-bound. Depending on how CPU intensive my jobs were exactly, my libev code needed anywhere from 2 to 10 threads to saturate a GbE link.

[wezfurlong]

The principal difference between the libphenom event dispatcher and the other event libraries is that libphenom can wakeup and dispatch IO events to any of the IO scheduling threads (no thread affinity).

Contrast with the libevent approach of using an application specific scheme to assign descriptors to an event base associated with a thread (strong thread affinity).

This makes more of a difference if you have chatty protocols and/or long lived sessions and no way to rebalance your fd -> event_base mapping.