Hello, I'm the author of irccd [0], a C++ IRC bot extensible with plugins. Up to the 3.0.0 version current in development, I had my network code written by myself (being used of lots of poll(2) usage in C). I have switched to Boost.Asio a while ago to remove my own code and facilitate further development. Even though I think it has its learning curve, I enjoyed a lot the switch and tested my IRC bot to connect 100 times in the same instance to my own local IRC server. It took less than 2 seconds to join all requested channels, taking only 2MB of RAM. This is just awesome. Congratulations for this powerful module :) [0]: http://projects.malikania.fr/irccd -- David