Kotlin-echo-client - Echo client using Kotlin with Ktor networking library

Overview

This repository contains an echo server implemented with Kotlin and ktor raw sockets.

It is an extension to the Project Loom Experiment repository with the goal of including Kotlin in a comparison of concurrent networking approaches in the Java ecosystem.

Building

Run the following to build a zip distribution of the echo client application:

./gradlew assembleDist

The resulting zip is in build/distributions.

Running

To run the echo client, execute the following in the bin directory:

./kotlin-echo-client <host> <port> <num connections> <message size> <duration ms>

Experiment

For details about the experiment setup, see the Project Loom Experiment repository.

Results

The following diagram contains throughput data points reported by echo client executions and metrics reported by the ps command.