Improve cross-platform support

[panesofglass]

Best candidate appears to be LibuvSharp.

See also http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-million-concurrent-connections-the-kernel-i.html

[panesofglass]

@7sharp9 I would appreciate any input you might have. Also, is libuv the right approach, or should we make the networking layer pluggable so that a *nix user could adapt any networking library? I imagine that's less useful, but just a thought.

[7sharp9]

I think try libuv and create some subjective measures which can be compared over the different platforms.

[panesofglass]

Problem is that I can't get LibuvSharp to build on Windows. I don't have the time to create my own wrappers. Any help is appreciated here.

[7sharp9]

I don't have any time either unfortunately. PCL is taking up any free time.

[panesofglass]

Would it be going to far to consider building our own TCP/IP stack on top of Intel DPDK?

[7sharp9]

Probably, I imaging it would take at least 3-6 months