Photon v0.12.1 with 50% faster eventloop

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Monday, 28 July 2025 at 19:57:41 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> So big news is that on Linux (and soon on other platforms) 
> eventloop was rewritten to run faster especially in chatty apps 
> that do lots of smallish send/recv ping pong. The end result is 
> 50% faster end-to-end memcached benchmark for my up and coming 
> hedgehog[1] server. It's now actually 15-20% faster than stock 
> memcached on memtier benchmark and about 50% faster on memcslap 
> tests I carried out, this is far from extensive benchmarking 
> and hedgehog is not even that optimized yet(!)
>
> [...]

And ofc I forgot the obligatory link:

https://github.com/DmitryOlshansky/photon