The Netty library is a benchmark for high performance libraries. Netty is designed for scalability in particular, horizontal scalability is based on the Selector and it has highly tuned this facility.

This library is designed to be lower latency and support higher throughputs by employing techniques used in low latency trading systems.

Network current support TCP only.

Planned support for

• Shared Memory
• Unreliable UDP

This library will require Java 8

The library is a cut down version of the functionality Netty provides, so it needs to be simpler to reflect this.

The target environment is to support TCP over 10 Gig-E ethernet. In prototype testing, this library has half the latency and support 30% more bandwidth.

A key test is that it shouldn't GC more than once (to allow for warm up) with -mx64m

This comes at the cost of scalability for large number os connections. In this situation, this library should perform at least as well as netty.

Netty has a much wider range of functionality, however it creates some garbage in it's operation (less than using plain NIO Selectors) and isn't designed to support busy waiting which gives up a small but significant delay.