title: comparing livuv, libevent or other implementations
body: <p>We are currently using epoll based implementation on Linux. We plan to port our software to mac and hence looking for platform independent approach. I looked at <code>libevent2</code> and <code>libuv</code>, both seem to be fitting our requirement. However, I would like to get suggestions from the people who have used both. I read some comparisons but they are quite old to be meaningful now:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>libuv seems to be more popular than libevent</li>
  <li>90% of our client connections are using TLS, and hence ease to use with SSL socket is mandatory. We are currently using boringssl and we are okay to use openssl too.</li>
  <li>multithreading support</li>
  <li>minimum buffer copy. It seems evbuffer in libevent is double copy approach which we'd like to avoid. They have <code>peek</code> API which may partially solve it but we yet to explore more.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Any other suggestions you might have on libevent, libuv or any other such options (no boost please).</p>