Lua binding to ZeroMQ library.
Support ZeroMQ version 3.2.x/4.x
This library is not dropin replacement for lua-zmq library.
This library has C and FFI version of binding.
https://github.com/zeromq/lzmq
If you plan use lzmq.threads
module then you should also install llthreads2
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Using LuaRocks:
luarocks install lua-llthreads2
orluarocks install lua-llthreads2-compat
luarocks install lzmq
or install only ffi versionluarocks install lzmq-ffi
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Using LuaDist:
luadist install lua-llthreads2
orluadist install lua-llthreads2-compat
luadist install lzmq
orluadist install lzmq-ffi
This is short API description.
See also exampes from OMQ - The Guide.
To run same test you should copy original performance tests to exampes/perf2/libzmq
and run runner.lua
from exampes/perf2
. For now it require LuaJIT and exists
C and FFI version of lzmq
library.
Of course you can run any test manually.
message size: 30 [B]
message count: 10000
mean throughput [Mb/s]:
# | libzmq | str | str(ffi) | msg | msg(ffi) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 349.396 | 307.141 | 393.636 | 186.162 | 239.617 |
2 | 350.007 | 310.398 | 412.371 | 188.132 | 248.011 |
3 | 377.596 | 311.284 | 413.010 | 205.076 | 281.228 |
4 | 422.535 | 308.206 | 414.007 | 174.406 | 248.679 |
5 | 392.477 | 311.324 | 411.876 | 181.722 | 274.946 |
6 | 382.470 | 309.917 | 395.127 | 177.528 | 631.413 |
7 | 393.636 | 324.851 | 415.010 | 186.437 | 282.686 |
8 | 386.910 | 303.298 | 379.627 | 116.919 | 268.908 |
9 | 397.022 | 311.931 | 415.945 | 187.749 | 244.998 |
10 | 438.196 | 302.763 | 412.229 | 189.813 | 255.646 |
message size: 1 [B]
message count: 10000
average latency [us]:
# | libzmq | str | str(ffi) | msg | msg(ffi) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 97.356 | 97.378 | 98.221 | 94.274 | 96.880 |
2 | 95.828 | 96.736 | 95.957 | 100.711 | 96.992 |
3 | 99.656 | 100.347 | 95.672 | 97.981 | 95.312 |
4 | 96.649 | 99.943 | 94.543 | 96.198 | 94.674 |
5 | 96.013 | 102.196 | 94.184 | 97.575 | 94.990 |
6 | 96.371 | 97.925 | 98.377 | 95.350 | 97.165 |
7 | 96.253 | 93.625 | 97.198 | 94.856 | 94.544 |
8 | 95.155 | 96.371 | 94.904 | 96.792 | 95.507 |
9 | 94.703 | 96.698 | 96.924 | 97.951 | 95.527 |
10 | 95.635 | 97.946 | 95.684 | 96.429 | 92.629 |
Feature | lua-zmq | lzmq |
---|---|---|
global zmq variable | create | does not create |
zmq.init | io_threads optional | io_threads require |
create message | zmq.zmq_msg_t.init_XXX | zmq.msg_init_XXX |
message as string | tostring(msg) | msg:data()/tostring(msg) |
message as ud | msg:data() | msg:pointer() |
msg:close();msg:data() | AV | lua error |