PHP7 Support

[gu3st]

Hi

I'm wondering when this extension will be updated for PHP 7 and the new changes to it.

Thanks!

[majuca]

Me too...

[ichiriac]

FYI i'm actually trying to do so : https://github.com/expressif/pecl-event-libevent

[marcj]

@ichiriac does it work yet? :)

[toverux]

@marcj, just tried, it compiles and loads without error or warning, but I get random errors everywhere in use.

[ichiriac]

@marcj it's fixed and works with all my tests

@toverux the main problem with this lib is that there is no unit tests, i've just started to implement them with this release. Any resolved memory leak makes it more stable - give it a new try and if you find problems fill an issue

[toverux]

@ichiriac Great :) But now I use php-uv by bwoebi (since libuv seems preferred in Icicle and in amp, plus, it has a lot of features). When I have to use React again, I will try again your port. Good luck!

[ichiriac]

@toverux libuv looks really great, I've migrated libevent for historic reasons (old legacy code)

I'm looking for benchmarks to compare perfs of libuv vs libevent
(BTW lcicle uses libev which is more light than libevent but was abandoned by nodejs in favor of libuv)

Another thread pointing in the same direction : facebook/hhvm#2047 (libevent seems a little old/dead)

[jilieryuyi]

I try this :https://github.com/expressif/pecl-event-libevent , and get Segmentation fault: 11 error

[jilieryuyi]

run with this demo :
$base = event_base_new();
$event = event_new();

event_set($event, 0, EV_TIMEOUT, function() {
echo "function called";
});
event_base_set($event, $base);

event_add($event, 5000000);
event_base_loop($base);