loadtest 8.0.1 → 8.0.2

package/doc/tcp-sockets.md

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
-# TCP Sockets Performance
+# Load Testing with TCP Sockets
 
-To improve performance the author has tried out using raw TCP sockets
-using the [net module](https://nodejs.org/api/net.html),
+The `loadtest` module has impressive performance,
+and it has got better during the years as the Node.js core improves.
+Heavily inspired by `autocannon`,
+the author has tried out using raw TCP sockets to improve performance.
+They use the [net module](https://nodejs.org/api/net.html)
 instead of the [HTTP module](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html).
 This is the story of how it went.
 
@@ -113,8 +116,9 @@ Keep-alive cannot be used with `ab` as far as the author knows.
 
 #### Autocannon
 
-The [autocannon](https://www.npmjs.com/package/autocannon) package uses by default
-10 concurrent connections with keep-alive enabled:
+Next we will try out [`autocannon`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/autocannon),
+the package that actually inspired this approach.
+`autocannon` uses by default 10 concurrent connections with keep-alive enabled:
 
 ```console
 $ autocannon --version
@@ -195,10 +199,10 @@ We are around **20 krps**.
 Again quite far from the 57 krps by `autocannon`;
 close to `ab` but it doesn't use keep-alive so the comparison is meaningless.
 
-### Proof of Concept
+### Proof of Concept: Barebones
 
 For the first implementation we want to learn if the bare sockets implementation is worth the time.
-In this naïve implementation we open the socket,
+In this naïve barebones implementation we open the socket,
 send a short canned request without taking into account any parameters or headers:
 
 ```js

package/lib/parser.js

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import microprofiler from 'microprofiler'
 
 const bodySeparator = '\r\n\r\n'
 const lineSeparator = '\r\n'
@@ -36,13 +35,10 @@ export class Parser {
 			// cannot parse yet
 			return
 		}
-		//const start1 = microprofiler.start()
 		this.packetInfo = new PacketInfo(this.pending.length, division)
 		const messageHeader = this.pending.subarray(0, division)
 		const messageBody = this.pending.subarray(division + 4)
 		this.parseFirstLine(messageHeader)
-		//microprofiler.measureFrom(start1, 'parse first line', 100000)
-		//const start2 = microprofiler.start()
 		const key = this.packetInfo.getKey()
 		const existing = packetInfos.get(key)
 		if (existing && this.packetInfo.isDuplicated(existing)) {
@@ -52,10 +48,7 @@ export class Parser {
 		}
 		packetInfos.set(key, this.packetInfo)
 		this.parseHeaders(messageHeader)
-		//microprofiler.measureFrom(start2, 'parse headers', 100000)
-		const start3 = microprofiler.start()
 		this.parseBody(messageBody)
-		microprofiler.measureFrom(start3, 'parse body', 100000)
 	}
 
 	parseFirstLine(messageHeader) {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "loadtest",
-	"version": "8.0.1",
+	"version": "8.0.2",
 	"type": "module",
 	"description": "Run load tests for your web application. Mostly ab-compatible interface, with an option to force requests per second. Includes an API for automated load testing.",
 	"homepage": "https://github.com/alexfernandez/loadtest",