Has anyone done a performance analysis of boost::asio?

Question

I require socket-like local IPC. I used named pipes and overlapped IO on windows and I want to rewrite the application to boost::ASIO so that it can use UNIX domain sockets

Answer 1

Also check this post about a locking problem in boost::asio, which may affect you.

Answer 2

I do performance tests of asio and my own impl on file reading (my blogpost entry) - in two words - asio shown good results.

Answer 3

In my opinion Boost.Asio is Windows-First, where most other free-software libraries are Linux-First. However the quality under Linux has always been good. Since this software got reveiwed by 20 people who did not participate in its development. Speed under Linux with multiple threads has been rapidly improved around the time the asker asked this question (2009): http://think-async.com/Asio/LinuxPerformanceImprovements

Speed under Windows has always been good. My biggest gripe is the design of UDP sockets, it is poorly implemented.