Speed

This is a quick look at the heart of AsyncFP. Benchmarks were done with an Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2GHz. Overall, a simple echo timing test was able to pass a message in 83 nanoseconds, while a dual echo timing test that took advantage of the 2 hardware threads was able to pass a message in 51 nanoseconds, a 63% improvement. Effectively, everything runs single threaded (for high-performance) except as otherwise required.

1. Asynchronous Messaging: The foundation.
2. Buffered Messaging: Speed under load.
3. Request / Response: Flow control.
4. Synchronous Messaging: Fast interaction with idle actors.
5. Bind: Multiple actors per message queue.