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# Hardware Environment
CPU: 28 HT Cores Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz
Mem: 32GB RAM
OS : Ubuntu 18.04.3 4.15.0-88-generic #88-Ubuntu
Net: Switched 10-gigabit ethernet
Go : go1.14.x linux/amd64

This is the top 50 on the framework ranking of all programming languages consists of a total of 422 frameworks from all over the world where gnet is the runner-up.

This is the full framework ranking of Go and gnet tops all the other frameworks, which makes gnet the fastest networking framework in Go.

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Contrasts to the similar networking libraries

On Linux (epoll)

Test Environment

# Machine information
        OS : Ubuntu 20.04/x86_64
       CPU : 8 CPU cores, AMD EPYC 7K62 48-Core Processor
    Memory : 16.0 GiB

# Go version and settings
Go Version : go1.17.2 linux/amd64
GOMAXPROCS : 8

# Benchmark parameters
TCP connections : 1000/2000/5000/10000
Packet size     : 512/1024/2048/4096/8192/16384/32768/65536 bytes
Test duration   : 15s

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On MacOS (kqueue)

Test Environment

# Machine information
        OS : MacOS Big Sur/x86_64
       CPU : 6 CPU cores, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
    Memory : 16.0 GiB

# Go version and settings
Go Version : go1.16.5 darwin/amd64
GOMAXPROCS : 12

# Benchmark parameters
TCP connections : 300/400/500/600/700
Packet size     : 512/1024/2048/4096/8192 bytes
Test duration   : 15s

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