Network Programming With Anyevent

Network Programming with AnyEvent PtPW’08 - {mailto,xmpp}:melo@simplicidade.org

Contenders • POE • Event • Danga::Socket • AnyEvent

Overhead 10k servers, 20k sockets, 1% active 15,000 11,250 7,500 3,750 0 create request EV Perl Event Glib POE

Overhead 10k servers, 20k sockets 300 225 150 75 0 create request EV Perl Event

Overhead 8 servers, 16 sockets 300 225 150 75 0 create request EV Perl Event Glib POE

Overhead 8 servers, 16 sockets 90.0 67.5 45.0 22.5 0 create request EV Perl Event Glib

AnyEvent • framework for event driven programming • thin layer above several event loops • EV, Event, Gtk, Tk, POE • deals with IO handles (incl. unix domain sockets), timers, signals, processes • thousands of sockets with proper event loop (EV)

Watchers and Condvars • AnyEvent has two basic concepts • Watchers • Condvars • Watchers wait for externals events: socket input, timer expiration, child process exits • Condvars are a synchronization primitive

IO Watchers • Covers ﬁle handles, sockets, unix domain sockets • Deals with buffered reads and writes • Can also deal with “reading lines” or “block of bytes”: callback only when we have everything

Timers • Execute callback sometime in the future • Single shot timers only • Common uses: timeouts

Condvars • Provide syncronization inside your program • A simple broadcast service • Multiple interested parties • Anybody can trigger it • All the interested parties will be notiﬁed

Read a line $| = 1; print quot;enter your name> quot;; my $name = <STDIN>;

Read a line, take II use AnyEvent; $| = 1; print quot;enter your name> quot;; my $name; my $wait_for_input = AnyEvent->io ( fh => *STDIN, poll => quot;rquot;, cb => sub { $name = <STDIN>; } );

Demo • A simple broadcast server • Multiple clients • Broadcasts lines sent by one client to all the others • Code http://github.com/melo/presentations/

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Network Programming With Anyevent

by Pedro Melo on Jun 09, 2008

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