August 2012
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Latest release of The Server Framework: 6.5.6
Version 6.5.6 of The Server Framework was released today. This release contains some bug fixes, a selection of minor improvements and improved support for the Visual Studio 2012 (Note that there will be a further release shortly after … -
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Latest release of The Server Framework: 6.5.7
Version 6.5.7 of The Server Framework was released today. This release contains one important bug fix and support for Visual Studio 2012 RTM. The bug that was introduced in 6.5.6 has exposed a gap in our unit testing which has also been … -
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Windows Server 2012 Registered I/O Performance - take 2...
I’ve been looking at the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking Extensions since October when they first made an appearance as part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Whilst exploring and understanding the new API I spent some time … -
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Worrying issue with Windows 8 and AcceptEx...
There’s an interesting question over on stack overflow about a perceived change in IOCP behaviour on Windows 8 (and Server 2012 RC). The question includes some code which demonstrates how an overlapped AcceptEx() call is blocked on by … -
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Winsock Registered I/O - Traditional Multi threaded IOCP UDP Example Server
This article presents the sixth in my series of example servers for comparing the performance of the Winsock Registered I/O Networking extensions, RIO, and traditional Windows networking APIs. This example server is a traditional … -
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Winsock Registered I/O, I/O Completion Port Performance
Continuing my analysis of the performance of the new Winsock Registered I/O API, RIO, compared to more traditional networking APIs we finally get to the point where we compare I/O completion port designs. I’ve been looking at the …