libipc-old/README.md

libipc

libipc - Simple, easy-to-use IPC library

See the introductory man page in man/libipc.7.

See the presentation in docs/libipc.md.

This library is a work in progress, but is already used intensively in production. It works, but we provide no warranty.

Compilation

make

Since 0.7

• libipc have callbacks to use along with switching capabilities, making easier to implement proxies for different communication protocols

Planning for 0.8

For performance improvements within libipc:

• libipc shouldn't use realloc for each event (new client, new message, etc.) but by batch of a few thousand elements
• libipc should use better internal structures, unrequiring the use of loops (over the whole list of messages or connections) for each action
• libipc will be rewritten in Zig

Planning for 0.9

• libipc should use epoll/kqueue for performance improvments
  • new functions will be added to the API
  • but we'll keep the same API for applications with no need for threading (way simpler implementation)
• libipc should be thread-safe

Planning for 1.0

• libipc should have usable bindings in several languages

Implementation design

Memory management

1. Prefer stack over mallocs.
2. Basic functions (such as usock_) should not handle memory allocation.