[erlang-questions] Speed of communication with external processes

[Ulf Wiger]

When I've done similar tests, I've usually benchmarked one
erlang node talking to another over such a TCP socket.
Depending on machine, I've usually landed around 100-150us
round-trip. With blocking select on the external program,
you should be able to get better results.

I think that 50 us round-trip overhead when calling an erlang
function from a C program would feel comfortable. I've not
been able to reach that through normal means, but I believe
that it was done once using a blocking linked-in driver (by
Lars Björnfot at CSLab, while evaluating VIA)

BR,
Ulf W

2007/4/14, James Hague <james.hague@REDACTED>:
>
> I wrote an Erlang program that uses a local TCP socket (with nodelay)
> to communicate with a tiny external program (which I wrote).  I was
> curious what the turnaround time was on sending data to the external
> program and getting back a result, so I wrote a little test function.
>
> Under Windows XP, I'm getting ~3500 round trips per second.  I was
> surprised at how hight that number was.
>
> Under OS X, I'm getting ~90 round trips per second.  90?  Wow, that's
> low!  I'm sure something is wrong, but I haven't found it yet.
>
> Anyone else ever run tests like this?  I'd be curious what kind of
> numbers you got.
>
> Thanks!
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