Minimal, fast, and native socket support for Windows NT 4.0 (and beyond) compatible with C99
- 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
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.
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.
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
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
Open an issue to discuss any found bugs or enhancement ideas.
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.
Currently there are no known issues.