Comment by erikvanoosten
Comment by erikvanoosten a day ago
It has been a while since I saw their presentation. What I remember is that Aaron has an insanely low delay even in the high percentiles, that is orders of magnitude better. Throughput for a large stream of data is probably similar to plain UDP. Please correct me if I remember wrong.
It does have great tail latency. But it's not a silver bullet, but careful engineering. And you pay for the latency with spinning threads. It's the architecture that makes it to stand out. In the end, it's just the same old UDP sockets, not even io_uring at least in the free public version. But one can use LD_PRELOAD if hardware has this trick - but again, it's not specific to Aeron.