Hello,,

I am designing and implementing a custom protocol using Twisted. I have wanted to design the protocol to use int 32 prefixed strings. I wrote a test version of my server using Twisted's Int32StringReceiver protocol class but it seemed really slow. To test this out I have written and tested two echo servers: one that uses LineReceiver and one that uses Int32StringReceiver. I have benchmarked both of these echo servers by making multiple connections to each. I find that the LineReceiver based echo server is about 200 times as fast as the Int32StringReceiver!

Is the Int32StringReceiver really that slow? Why? What am I missing? Are there hidden assumptions that I am missing? Can it be made faster?

Thanks in advance!

Brian