[erlang-questions] Re: 20k messages in 4s but want to go faster!

[Joel Reymont]

On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Jim Morris wrote:

> Actually Tony has a good point, I presumed Joel was doing it that way.

And I was.

> Not sure if having a list of 8,000 TCP sockets and iterating over them
> sending to each socket from a single process would be any slower, I
> never tried that approach.

It must positively be slower. I once measured the overhead of a message
send to be 10x over a function call, maybe not precisely that but still
_many_ times slower. A data point for all you out there trying to  
implement
objects as processes.

> So Joel do you have one process per client or iterate over a list of
> sockets?

gen_server is even slower than a regular message send so I can't imagine
a circumstance where taking a trip through a socket-fronting process
can be faster than sending to the socket directly.

On to fix my measurements!

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