FTL Network Library

FTL Net provides an easy to use C++17 network library based around a mix of streams and RPC. It is now highly optimised to minimise memory copies and locking, whilst fully taking advantage of all CPU cores for processing messages received over the network. Each message received is dispatched into a thread pool. The optimisation works on the basis of a relatively low number of socket connections but with a high bandwidth and low latency requirement in sending and receiving on those sockets. Further work would be needed to be efficient with large or massive numbers of sockets.

The protocol is based on top of MsgPack which works in both C++ and JavaScript. To work with JavaScript the protocol works over TCP and TCP+Websockets. The library is also cross platform, supporting Windows and Linux.

It is a template library, allowing simple RPC calls and bindings using the latest in C++ features such as optionals, lambdas and futures.

Universe

A Universe class represents a network group and is the primary means of interaction for the user of the library. It supports bind, connect, call, send, disconnect, asyncCall and more.

Peer

A Peer object is a fairly internal object that wraps a socket connection and deals with all actual sending and receiving over the network.