alpinejoe

I added this function to make it easier to port programs utilizing poll to libevfibers and use the co-operative threading model. Such programs are already built upon a event design....

My target was to write something equivalent of pth's soft and hard syscall overrides. I understand the wrapper is inefficient, but my target was to port libraries like curl without...

May be curl was a bad example. Libraries that do not support a asynchronous API like MySQL client would be a better one. Overriding is a clever hack. The authors...

> It's still a hack, and may void one's warranty. I did not find any > reference of Apache web server in this paper, they are speaking about some >...

I have not. From what I've read so far, those calls hint the processor to fetch the data to the cache. And by the looks of it, the call is...

> I've noticed the python interface have changed, specifically, the output is not numpy, but python. You mean output of knn_query? It should still be a numpy array, although it's...

@yurymalkov you should be able to run the sift tests now. Absence of _mm_prefetch calls were indeed causing a slow-down, so I've added them back. The performance jump is worth...