README.performance

gatling uses the io and iob interfaces from libowfat and thus exploits
OS specific performance hacks on the following operating systems:

  Linux 2.4:
    O(1) event notification scalability through sigio
    zero-copy TCP via sendfile

  Linux 2.6:
    O(1) event notification scalability through epoll
    zero-copy TCP via sendfile

  FreeBSD 4 and 5:
    O(1) event notification scalability through kqueue
    zero-copy TCP via sendfile

  NetBSD 2:
    O(1) event notification scalability through kqueue
    zero-copy TCP via mmap+write

  OpenBSD 3.4:
    They have kqueue, but it's not O(1)
    They don't have sendfile, and to my knowledge their mmap+write is
      not zero-copy

  HP-UX 11:
    There were rumours of /dev/poll, but my test box didn't have it.
    So we have O(n) event notification scalability through poll(2)
    zero-copy TCP via sendfile

  IRIX 6.5:
    O(1) event notification scalability through /dev/poll
    Rumour has it that mmap+write is zero-copy in IRIX.
    I have no way of knowing, though

  Solaris 9:
    O(1) event notification scalability through /dev/poll
    zero-copy TCP via sendfile

  MacOS X:
    Uses kqueue, but I haven't benchmarked it yet to see if it's O(1)
    the headers in panther declare sendfile (protected with #if SENDFILE
    (not #ifdef, #if!)), but libc doesn't have it, and neither does any
    other library.

  AIX:
    AIX 5 has send_file.  I am not aware of any way to speed up poll on
    AIX.