[Bro-Dev] Performance Issues after the fe7e1ee commit?

[Jon Siwek]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:26 PM Robin Sommer <robin at icir.org> wrote:

> One question about Broker's endpoint::advance_time(): that's locking
> on each call when in pcap mode, i.e., once per packet. Could we limit
> that to cases where something actually needs to be done? Quick idea:
> use an atomic<> for current_time plus another atomic<> counter
> tracking if there are any pending message. And go into the locked case
> only if the latter is non-zero?

Yes, I've done that in master, but didn't measure a notable difference.

> > General changes/improvements in CAF itself may be warranted here

Made an issue for that here:

https://github.com/actor-framework/actor-framework/issues/699

- Jon