#Features

• High-performance event-loop under networking model of multiple threads/goroutines
• Built-in load balancing algorithm: Round-Robin
• Built-in goroutine pool powered by the library ants
• Built-in memory pool with bytes powered by the library bytebufferpool
• Concise APIs
• Efficient memory usage: Ring-Buffer
• Supporting multiple protocols/IPC mechanism: TCP, UDP and Unix Domain Socket
• Supporting two event-driven mechanisms: epoll on Linux and kqueue on FreeBSD
• Supporting asynchronous write operation
• Flexible ticker event
• SO_REUSEPORT socket option
• Built-in multiple codecs to encode/decode network frames into/from TCP stream: LineBasedFrameCodec, DelimiterBasedFrameCodec, FixedLengthFrameCodec and LengthFieldBasedFrameCodec, referencing netty codec, also supporting customized codecs
• Supporting Windows platform with event-driven mechanism of IOCP Go stdlib: net
• Additional load-balancing algorithms: Random, Least-Connections, Consistent-hashing and so on
• TLS support
• Implementation of gnet Client