It's been a while since i sat down and profiled monotorrent, turns out there's not much that has adversely affected my memory optimisations that i implemented a while ago. Things are all still fine and dandy.

However one thing that i never liked were the large amount of allocations due to using the async sockets. It always annoyed me that the worst part of my code i had no control over. Well, it turns out that it isn't *just* the sockets causing those allocations, there's another thing i haven't looked at yet.

My timer!

I use a single timer in the library which fires about 20 times a second. This was originally needed as a way to make sure that certain events happened regularly. However, I've never liked this timer and i have been working to get rid of it. For example i removed the dependence of downloading pieces and piece picking from that timer (as much as is possible). Download/Upload speed monitoring is still dependant on the timer, so once i remove that dependence and the only other thing left is to make connecting to other peers independent of the timer. Currently i try to connect to a new peer every timer tick so long as i haven't reached the limit.

So, before i used to have an allocation graph that looks like this:


That big yellow bar is the allocations due to both the timer and the async sockets. There's a lot of execution contexts there :p After changing the timer interval to 1 second, i get the following allocation graph:


That tiny cyan coloured bar is the severely reduced amount of execution contexts being allocated. So before you all get to feel the benefits of that change, i have to modify a fair bit of code. Once thats done, i'll be releasing beta 3 which is (hopefully) a lot more stable than any previous version, and faster, and uses less ram, and uses less CPU and god knows what else ;)