Converting networking to ASIO

[Jonathan-L-Davis]

Before I go spend a lot of time on this, would you appreciate it if I rewrote the network socket calls in ASIO? It would minimize the need for #ifdef's for the networking portions, and ASIO is a very well established, header only, & portable. It allows us to use a single interface for network IO. As a downside it is fairly large, however, I don't mind being responsible for stripping out the headers we don't use. Asio lets us do blocking & non-blocking IO & has many builtins for things like IPv4 vs IPv6 or UDP vs TCP, etc. This would simplify the networking portions of the code, making them easier to maintain in the future.

[Noeli14]

That is a very good idea. I will look into it. Thanks

[Noeli14]

Before I go spend a lot of time on this, would you appreciate it if I rewrote the network socket calls in ASIO?

Also I would really appreciate it. I can use any help I can get. That would be really nice.

Thanks

[Jonathan-L-Davis]

I will start chipping away at it then. I should be able to get a good chunk done before the new year.

[Jonathan-L-Davis]

No concrete progress. I started to just replace the raw network read & write calls with the asio equivalent, and while that would work, it wouldn't be super performant because it would be a lot of reallocating memory, constantly. I have been thinking a lot about how to restructure it to take advantage of a memory arena. Do you have a discord server where we could talk about details of the codebase more quickly than on github? I think this project is cool, and I would like to see it succeed.

[Stars-22]

I also think this project is cool, so I'm going to build one from scratch.