phtdacosta / gobio

Minimal, fast, and native socket support for Windows NT 4.0 (and beyond) compatible with C99

Welcome to Gobio

Minimal, fast, and native socket support for Windows NT 4.0 (and beyond) compatible with C99

Main features

• Native based on the estabilished and well documented Winsock 2 API
• Asynchronous sockets relying on Input/Output Completion Ports (IOCP)
• Automatic multi-thread support when available for maximum hardware usage
• Benchmarks against industry standards confirms the blazing-fast performance
• Created to be unopinionated and fully hackable to easily fit any networking needs
• Backwards compatibility with Windows NT 4.0 and C99 makes it widely suited for legacy projects
• Everything in less than 300 lines of code

Benchmarks

Siege 3.0.5 -b -t60s OS: Windows 8.1 6.3.9600 CPU: Intel i3-4012Y 1.5GHz RAM: 4GB 1600MHz

UPDATED 07/24/2018

Feature	NodeJS 10.0.0	Gobio 1.0.0-beta
Transactions	22331 hits	85387 hits
Availability	100.00 %	100.00 %
Elapsed time	59.95 secs	59.21 secs
Data transferred	0.45 MB	2.77 MB
Response time	0.00 secs	0.00 secs
Transaction rate	372.48 trans/sec	1442.13 trans/sec
Throughput	0.01 MB/sec	0.05 MB/s
Concurrency	1.05	1.34
Successful transactions	22346	85399
Failed transactions	0	0
Longest transaction	0.14	0.60
Shortest transaction	0.00	0.00

Without any fine tuning or specific optimizations, Gobio sucessfully handled 3.87x more requests/second than the NodeJS counterpart.

Why to test against NodeJS?

Like Gobio, NodeJS main engine relies on the IOCP from the Windows API to pursue performance, but some core development decisions made it considerably slower.

Quickstart

The source file itself contains an usage example of an HTTP response, accessible at the address http://127.0.0.1:7070 after the following steps:

> git clone https://github.com/phtdacosta/gobio.git
> cd gobio
> gcc gobio.c -o gobio -lwsock32 -lws2_32
> gobio.exe 

License and usage

Gobio is open source currently under the GPL 3.0 license. Any specific use for the project will probably require code changes. Best use cases include:

• RESTful Application program interfaces (API)
• Static content delivery networks (CDN)
• Pure socket microservices

Contributions

Open an issue to discuss any found bugs or enhancement ideas.

Vision

Gobio should remain a simple and straightforward way to deliver performant socket support for Windows and Unix systems. Although not implemented yet, Unix support is going to be part of the project sometime in the future.

Known issues

Currently there are no known issues.

gobio's Issues

good work

I like the pure c style and short minimal file

do you have the windows named pipe version of iocp?