The multithreading preview for Crystal was just merged in yesterday so I’ve been playing around with it a bit to check its performance. Sure enough, I was able to saturate all 32 cores on a DigitalOcean droplet with 32.times { spawn { loop {} } }: [Crystal 32 cores] I wrote up a quick HTTP::Serve…

[image] straight-shoota: You could try with more and less threads to see if there is a better utilization ratio. To do that, run the program with an env var like CRYSTAL_WORKERS=8

[image] straight-shoota: You could try with more and less threads to see if there is a better utilization ratio. Tuning the thread pool was the first thing I tried. :-) I was using CRYSTAL_WORKERS=6 for these benchmarks, which is what allowed it to use up to 450-475% CPU. With the raw-string…

It would be interesting to compare to Go with fasthttp instead of standard net/http. Go with fasthttp can be much faster: [image] TechEmpower Web Framework Performance Comparison Performance comparison of a wide spectrum of web application frameworks and platforms using community-contrib…

[image] vlazar: It would be interesting to compare to Go with fasthttp instead of standard net/http . Feel free to try it out if you’re interested! You clearly know more about Go than I do. :smile: My own preference is to look at apps that are performing realistic workloads, which is why I s…

like talking to a DB Just note that crystal-db isn’t prepared for multithreading right now, but will soon be. So if you want to write a benchmark using that you’ll most likely get crashes or similar.

[image] Blog: Parallelism in Crystal Official A not so short post can be found at: https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal.html If you want to have a conversation in the twitter land use

With the web requests one is it using 100% cpu’s?

It would be interesting to see the output from a sampling cpu profiler for those 100% cpu runs (i.e. “where is it using all that extra cpu” since I guess there’s theoretically 8 cores but it’s only 4x as fast… :) hmm…basically just out of curiosity…

Running a profiler on the original app I wrote for this thread (the one that yields the fiber and then serializes JSON) shows the event loop needs 12% of the CPU time available to that thread (1.55 seconds out of 12.82): [Thread trace for original app in macOS Instruments] Most of that is libeven…

Multithreaded Crystal initial thoughts

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Multithreaded Crystal initial thoughts

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