How to write a high performance Netty Client

Question

I want an extremely efficient TCP client to send google protocol buffer messages. I have been using the Netty library to develop a server/client.

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Answer 1

I am not sure if "tcpNoDelay" helps to improve the throughput. Delay is there to improve the performance. None the less, I tried it and saw that the throughput actually fell more than 90%.