Objectives for the next year

[Hal Murray]

> I'll start the ball rolling with this big one:  It's time to move out of C.

I want to threadify things, and taking advantage of that, I want to run at 
full wire speed on a gigabit link with a modest server class CPU.

I have test code running.  I'm pretty sure it will work.  But my test code is 
in C.

Are other people happy with threads?

I think threadifying things will allow us to clean up the code a lot.  I think 
that may be as important for writing safe/clean code as moving out of C.


> My choice for a language to move to would be Go.

The only other choice I've seen seriously mentioned is Rust.  How do they 
compare for thread support and for CPU cycles?  Do they have full access to 
all the options for network I/O?  (for example recv time stamps)

My first reaction is that I don't want reference counted stuff involved with 
network I/O.  But maybe that is bogus.  It's roughy 5 microseconds for a 
recv/send pair in C. We should write some test code so we can get some real 
timing numbers.


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