Análise de Desempenho de APIs de Sockets

Abstract

The Internet has changed the way we communicate. Its revolution led to the creation of the most varied types of systems, with the purpose of making our lives easier. These systems are now having more demands on their quality, as they must be robust and reliable systems. One of the most important qualities of systems today is speed and scalability. A system should be fast enough and scalable. The solution found for this problem is the distribution of the parts of this system. What guarantees this distribution is the communication in a network of computers. The parts of the system communicate over the network using sockets, an abstraction of the operating system, that lies below the application layer, used to facilitate the development of software that talks through the network. Therefore, the socket becomes an important character in the requirements of these systems. The objective of this work is to identify which of the implementations of sockets has better performance, so that a deeper analysis is possible in the choice of API (Application program interface), which as previously mentioned plays an important role in the requirements of distributed systems.