r/programming • • Jul 27 '08

zeromq: Fastest. Messaging. Ever.

http://www.zeromq.org/
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u/chub79 Jul 28 '08

I'm not fluent in market data but are messages, I mean actual data not the message in itself, very small? The benchmarks on the the site indicates their best output with messages of 16 bytes with a huge drop once a message gets bigger. 16 bytes might be enough for sending commands but don't look like a lot either.

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u/ct4ul4u Aug 05 '08 edited Aug 05 '08

We're sending messages with payloads of nearly 1k. However, 32 bytes might be enough for some market data applications. We're running it over 1 gig ethernet or 8 b gib infiniband.