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Boosting Socket Performance on Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everyone-likes-more dept.

Cop writes "The Sockets API lets you develop client and server applications that can communicate across a local network or across the world via the Internet. Like any API, you can use the Sockets API in ways that promote high performance -- or inhibit it. This article explores four ways to use the Sockets API to squeeze the greatest performance out your application and to tune the GNU/Linux® environment to achieve the best results."

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  1. Re:Code Portability by complexmath · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was a Boost library in the works to encapsulate all of this rather nicely, but I'm not sure if it ever made it out of beta. ACE is another option, though that tends to be overkill for some projects. I rolled my own class wrapper around this stuff, but then I enjoy library programming.