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> usage of raw pointers, unchecked pointer arithmetic, goto for flow control and raw new/delete calls

But without all that you would lose performance which seems to be the main goal of this project.

Yes, I use uv_poll_t instead of uv_tcp_t because of massive memory and performance differences.

Every decision made, has been made from a performance perspective.

I'm interested in what you've learned using libuv while tuning this library. I've read in the past that libuv makes a lot of unnecessary memory allocations. Is this true and/or have you consider writing directly to select/epoll/kqueue? Is there a lot of overhead in using libuv vs the OS provided eventing syscalls?

Libuv is definitely not as "screamingly fast" as it's marketing tells. I found the biggest flaw with libuv to be the uv_tcp_t which forces you to have a user space buffer to receive the data, something not needed when using uv_poll_t.

I do not know what the overhead of uv_poll_t is compared to epoll/kqueue but I think it's a good balance to depend on libuv in this case, and since we need to integrate with Node.js it is kind of required.

I would much rather use mTCP to further improve the performance but then this project would not be as relevant to most developers. Performance & relevance is key - it can be optimized further by using mTCP and such.

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