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Lua binding to ZeroMQ library.

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Support ZeroMQ version 3.2.x/4.x
This library is not dropin replacement for lua-zmq library.
This library has C and FFI version of binding.

Source Code

https://github.com/zeromq/lzmq

Install

If you plan use lzmq.threads module then you should also install llthreads2

  • Using LuaRocks:
    luarocks install lua-llthreads2 or luarocks install lua-llthreads2-compat
    luarocks install lzmq or install only ffi version luarocks install lzmq-ffi

  • Using LuaDist:
    luadist install lua-llthreads2 or luadist install lua-llthreads2-compat
    luadist install lzmq or luadist install lzmq-ffi

API

This is short API description.
See also exampes from OMQ - The Guide.

Performance

To run same test you should copy original performance tests to exampes/perf2/libzmq and run runner.lua from exampes/perf2. For now it require LuaJIT and exists C and FFI version of lzmq library.
Of course you can run any test manually.

Inproc Throughput Test:

message size: 30 [B]
message count: 10000
mean throughput [Mb/s]:

# libzmq str str(ffi) msg msg(ffi)
1 349.396 307.141 393.636 186.162 239.617
2 350.007 310.398 412.371 188.132 248.011
3 377.596 311.284 413.010 205.076 281.228
4 422.535 308.206 414.007 174.406 248.679
5 392.477 311.324 411.876 181.722 274.946
6 382.470 309.917 395.127 177.528 631.413
7 393.636 324.851 415.010 186.437 282.686
8 386.910 303.298 379.627 116.919 268.908
9 397.022 311.931 415.945 187.749 244.998
10 438.196 302.763 412.229 189.813 255.646

Inproc Latency Test:

message size: 1 [B]
message count: 10000
average latency [us]:

# libzmq str str(ffi) msg msg(ffi)
1 97.356 97.378 98.221 94.274 96.880
2 95.828 96.736 95.957 100.711 96.992
3 99.656 100.347 95.672 97.981 95.312
4 96.649 99.943 94.543 96.198 94.674
5 96.013 102.196 94.184 97.575 94.990
6 96.371 97.925 98.377 95.350 97.165
7 96.253 93.625 97.198 94.856 94.544
8 95.155 96.371 94.904 96.792 95.507
9 94.703 96.698 96.924 97.951 95.527
10 95.635 97.946 95.684 96.429 92.629

Incompatibility list with lua-zmq (this is not full)

Feature lua-zmq lzmq
global zmq variable create does not create
zmq.init io_threads optional io_threads require
create message zmq.zmq_msg_t.init_XXX zmq.msg_init_XXX
message as string tostring(msg) msg:data()/tostring(msg)
message as ud msg:data() msg:pointer()
msg:close();msg:data() AV lua error