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iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support for
Tcl 9. The release archive iocp2.0a0.zip supports all combinations of
Tcl 8.6 / Tcl 9 and x86 / x64.

Documentation: https://iocp.magicsplat.com/
Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicsplat/files/iocp/

Tcl extension implementing TCP and Bluetooth channels based on I/O
completion ports. The iocp_inet package is API-compatible (except
for some new Tcl 9 fconfigure options) with Tcl sockets while offering
much higher performance
(https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Package+iocp%5Finet).



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Forgot to mention. Require Windows 7 or later.

On 4/16/2024 8:12 AM, Ashok wrote:

iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support for
Tcl 9. The release archive iocp2.0a0.zip supports all combinations of
Tcl 8.6 / Tcl 9 and x86 / x64.

Documentation: https://iocp.magicsplat.com/
Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicsplat/files/iocp/

Tcl extension implementing TCP and Bluetooth channels based on I/O completion ports. The iocp_inet package is API-compatible (except
for some new Tcl 9 fconfigure options) with Tcl sockets while offering
much higher performance (https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Package+iocp%5Finet).

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Am 16.04.2024 um 04:51 schrieb Ashok:

Forgot to mention. Require Windows 7 or later.

On 4/16/2024 8:12 AM, Ashok wrote:

iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support
for Tcl 9. The release archive iocp2.0a0.zip supports all combinations of
Tcl 8.6 / Tcl 9 and x86 / x64.

Documentation: https://iocp.magicsplat.com/
Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicsplat/files/iocp/

Tcl extension implementing TCP and Bluetooth channels based on I/O
completion ports. The iocp_inet package is API-compatible (except
for some new Tcl 9 fconfigure options) with Tcl sockets while offering
much higher performance
(https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Package+iocp%5Finet).

Great Wizard work!
Would love to get that into the core...

Thank you for all,
Harald
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* Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
| iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support --<snip-snip>--
| Tcl extension implementing TCP and Bluetooth channels based on I/O
| completion ports. The iocp_inet package is API-compatible (except
| for some new Tcl 9 fconfigure options) with Tcl sockets while offering
| much higher performance
| (https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Package+iocp%5Finet).

Thank you very much for that great package, Ashok!

I finally took the time to benchmark iocp in my setting:

- server side is Linux, connected via 1 Gbit local network
- on my Windows-10 machine (latest patch, TCL 8.6.14,
iocp self compiled using Visual Studio 2022),

$ tclsh netbench.tcl client -server 192.168.1.164 -repeat 3 -provider "iocp tcl"
socket 192.168.1.164 10101
117.92 589619200 5.00 iocp->tcl
118.14 590700544 5.00 iocp->tcl
118.15 590774272 5.00 iocp->tcl

$ tclsh netbench.tcl client -server 192.168.1.164 -repeat 3 -provider "tcl"
socket 192.168.1.164 10101
75.82 379125760 5.00 tcl
77.64 388198400 5.00 tcl
76.03 380153856 5.00 tcl


Since I could not get the reverse direction past the windows firewall
(?), I rolled my own read-benchmark, basically:

- server side is Linux, connected via 1 Gbit local network
netcat -k -l 65432 < /dev/zero

- client:
- open the socket, configure -translation binary
- set up fileveent readable
- read in bunches of 65536 bytes
- do statistics

tcl::socket
58.20 MB/s (avg 58.48 MB/s, lowest 57.91 MB/s)

iocp::inet::socket
117.85 MB/s (avg 117.84 MB/s, lowest 117.70 MB/s)

The main point is that in both directions iocp saturates the 1G network,
while TCL does not.

R'
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* Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
| iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support
| for Tcl 9. The release archive iocp2.0a0.zip supports all combinations
| of
| Tcl 8.6 / Tcl 9 and x86 / x64.

| Documentation: https://iocp.magicsplat.com/
| Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicsplat/files/iocp/

| Tcl extension implementing TCP and Bluetooth channels based on I/O
| completion ports. The iocp_inet package is API-compatible (except
| for some new Tcl 9 fconfigure options) with Tcl sockets while offering
| much higher performance
| (https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Package+iocp%5Finet).

Ashok,
any plans on adding a C-level interface?

The 'old' iocpsock had the calls to the socket creators
Iocp_OpenTcpClient() and Iocp_OpenTcpServer() DLL-exported, so I could
directly create the iocp-sockets from my C-Code.

I guess without a direct interface I could always create the socket via
a call to Tcl_Eval("iocp::inet::socket ..."), get the ObjResult and
extract the ChannelObj from that?

R'
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* Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
| iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support
| for Tcl 9. The release archive iocp2.0a0.zip supports all combinations
| of
| Tcl 8.6 / Tcl 9 and x86 / x64.

| Documentation: https://iocp.magicsplat.com/
| Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicsplat/files/iocp/

Why does the 'configure' script second-guess my decision for
--enable-64bit? If 64bit is requested, instead of just accepting the
users decision, it uses some fixed pathes where some ancient SDK was
installed to check whether it can be found on the users computer, which
of course fails, since in newer SDKs, the pathes have changed.

Luckily, I can override the consequences of this via a variable in the generated Makefile...

I *think* the code in question is a result of expanding
TEA_CONFIG_CFLAGS when the configure script is created from
configure.in, so this does not seem an issue of iocp itself.
Ashok, can you tell who is maintaining the TEA_CONFIG_CFLAGS part of the autoconf step?

R'
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* Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
| * Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
| | iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support
| | for Tcl 9. The release archive iocp2.0a0.zip supports all combinations
| | of
| | Tcl 8.6 / Tcl 9 and x86 / x64.
| >
| | Documentation: https://iocp.magicsplat.com/
| | Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicsplat/files/iocp/

| Why does the 'configure' script second-guess my decision for
| --enable-64bit? If 64bit is requested, instead of just accepting the
| users decision, it uses some fixed pathes where some ancient SDK was
| installed to check whether it can be found on the users computer, which
| of course fails, since in newer SDKs, the pathes have changed.

Ashok, could you update to the latest tclconfig release (https://core.tcl-lang.org/tclconfig) and recreate the 'configure'
script? The latest tclconfig release no longer contains the bogus SDK detection code.

TNX
R'
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On 4/18/2024 2:45 PM, Ralf Fassel wrote:

* Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
| * Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
| | iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support
| | for Tcl 9. The release archive iocp2.0a0.zip supports all combinations
| | of
| | Tcl 8.6 / Tcl 9 and x86 / x64.
| >
| | Documentation: https://iocp.magicsplat.com/
| | Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicsplat/files/iocp/

| Why does the 'configure' script second-guess my decision for
| --enable-64bit? If 64bit is requested, instead of just accepting the
| users decision, it uses some fixed pathes where some ancient SDK was
| installed to check whether it can be found on the users computer, which
| of course fails, since in newer SDKs, the pathes have changed.

Ashok, could you update to the latest tclconfig release (https://core.tcl-lang.org/tclconfig) and recreate the 'configure'
script? The latest tclconfig release no longer contains the bogus SDK detection code.

TNX
R'

I had updated to latest tclconfig release and checked again now. But I
had forgotten last couple of commits to github :-( Please check again if
it works for you.

Regarding "who maintains the TEA_CONFIG_CFLAGS", I'm afraid they are cargo-culted. Please do suggest patches/fixes.

/Ashok
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* Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
| On 4/18/2024 2:45 PM, Ralf Fassel wrote:
| > * Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
| > | * Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com>
| > | | iocp 2.0 Alpha 0 released. No feature or API changes except support
| > | | for Tcl 9. The release archive iocp2.0a0.zip supports all combinations | > | | of
| > | | Tcl 8.6 / Tcl 9 and x86 / x64.
| > | >
| > | | Documentation: https://iocp.magicsplat.com/
| > | | Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicsplat/files/iocp/
| >>
| > | Why does the 'configure' script second-guess my decision for
| > | --enable-64bit? If 64bit is requested, instead of just accepting the
| > | users decision, it uses some fixed pathes where some ancient SDK was
| > | installed to check whether it can be found on the users computer, which
| > | of course fails, since in newer SDKs, the pathes have changed.
| > Ashok, could you update to the latest tclconfig release
| > (https://core.tcl-lang.org/tclconfig) and recreate the 'configure'
| > script? The latest tclconfig release no longer contains the bogus SDK
| > detection code.

| I had updated to latest tclconfig release and checked again now. But I
| had forgotten last couple of commits to github :-( Please check again
| if it works for you.

Works like a charm (also the 'const' patches are already included, so
you could as well close ticket #23 :-).

| Regarding "who maintains the TEA_CONFIG_CFLAGS", I'm afraid they are
| cargo-culted. Please do suggest patches/fixes.

It's already fixed in the latest tclconfig release, so no further action required.

Thanks again!
R'
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Ralf,

Do you do any comparisons with the old iocpsock?
... just for kicks and giggles, thanks.
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On 4/23/2024 9:21 PM, David Gravereaux wrote:

Ralf,

Do you do any comparisons with the old iocpsock?
... just for kicks and giggles, thanks.

In all three recv modes
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On 4/23/2024 9:23 PM, David Gravereaux wrote:

On 4/23/2024 9:21 PM, David Gravereaux wrote:

Ralf,

Do you do any comparisons with the old iocpsock?
... just for kicks and giggles, thanks.

In all three recv modes

In zero-byte, set the buffer size to the largest payload size
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* David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
| Do you do any comparisons with the old iocpsock?
| ... just for kicks and giggles, thanks.

David,
I found that in my setting the 'old' iocpsock under Windows-7 was way
faster than plain TCL socket, and in Windows-10 suddenly way slower. I
did not investigate further with all the available options, but in the
mode which was fastest for me on Windows-7 (recvmode zero-byte, with a buffersize of 10485760 (modified TCL version)) gives me around
~35-40MByte/s on Windows-10. Since TCL sockets on Windows-10 are faster
(and fast enough for my purpose), I simply switched to TCL sockets...

R'
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On 4/24/2024 2:29 AM, Ralf Fassel wrote:

* David Gravereaux <davygrvy@pobox.com>
| Do you do any comparisons with the old iocpsock?
| ... just for kicks and giggles, thanks.

David,
I found that in my setting the 'old' iocpsock under Windows-7 was way
faster than plain TCL socket, and in Windows-10 suddenly way slower. I
did not investigate further with all the available options, but in the
mode which was fastest for me on Windows-7 (recvmode zero-byte, with a buffersize of 10485760 (modified TCL version)) gives me around
~35-40MByte/s on Windows-10. Since TCL sockets on Windows-10 are faster
(and fast enough for my purpose), I simply switched to TCL sockets...

R'

Now I'm sad :(
Bit rot on 15 year old code, drat.

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