0.8.0

0.8.0 - .NET 5 and KCP 👨‍🔬

• Change benchmarks to use .NET 5 (Everything is still .NET 3.1 Core compatible)
• Add a benchmark for Kcp2k, since this library will probably get more relevant in the future and is UDP based - Note that the results of KCP will probably increase with some tweaks.
• Change performance benchmarks to use 500 Clients and instead have 20 iterations
• Change from .NET Core 3.1.10 to 3.1.22, last release in master branch with .NET Core 3.x
• Include windows results again. Since the last Windows update, the benchmarks run a lot faster than before (even though they are still hardly comparable to Linux) and are worth noting to give a feeling of how the different libraries compare on different operating systems.

Ubuntu 20.04

To reproduce the benchmarks, run ./NetworkBenchmarkDotNet -b Essential.
Detailed Benchmark Hardware

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.12.1, OS=ubuntu 20.04
Intel Core i5-3570K CPU 3.40GHz (Ivy Bridge), 1 CPU, 4 logical and 4 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=5.0.103
  [Host]     : .NET Core 5.0.3 (CoreCLR 5.0.321.7203, CoreFX 5.0.321.7203), X64 RyuJIT
  Job-ZWOJJS : .NET Core 5.0.3 (CoreCLR 5.0.321.7203, CoreFX 5.0.321.7203), X64 RyuJIT

Platform=X64  Runtime=.NET Core 5.0  Concurrent=True  
Force=True  Server=True  InvocationCount=1  
IterationCount=20  LaunchCount=1  UnrollFactor=1  
WarmupCount=1  Version=0.8.0  OS=Linux 5.8.0-41-generic #46~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 17:52:23 UTC 2021  
DateTime=02/15/2021 18:08:30  

Method	Library	Clients	Throughput	Mean	Error	StdDev
Performance1	ENet	500	185,261 msg/s	2,698.9 ms	14.11 ms	16.25 ms
Performance2	ENet	500	1,137,405 msg/s	439.6 ms	3.69 ms	4.25 ms
Performance1	NetCoreServer	500	106,107 msg/s	4,712.2 ms	24.73 ms	27.48 ms
Performance2	NetCoreServer	500	108,097 msg/s	4,625.5 ms	15.29 ms	17.61 ms
Performance1	LiteNetLib	500	81,420 msg/s	6,141.0 ms	51.56 ms	59.38 ms
Performance2	LiteNetLib	500	298,159 msg/s	1,677.0 ms	15.40 ms	17.11 ms
Performance1	Kcp2k	500	47,227 msg/s	10,587.1 ms	3,304.33 ms	3,672.76 ms
Performance2	Kcp2k	500	50,075 msg/s	9,985.0 ms	2,525.07 ms	2,806.61 ms

Windows 10

To reproduce the benchmarks, run ./NetworkBenchmarkDotNet -b Essential.
Detailed Benchmark Hardware (Note that this machine has a lot more performance than the linux machine)

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.12.1, OS=Windows 10.0.19042
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 1 CPU, 16 logical and 8 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=5.0.100
  [Host]     : .NET Core 5.0.0 (CoreCLR 5.0.20.51904, CoreFX 5.0.20.51904), X64 RyuJIT
  Job-VQNPIH : .NET Core 5.0.0 (CoreCLR 5.0.20.51904, CoreFX 5.0.20.51904), X64 RyuJIT

Platform=X64  Runtime=.NET Core 5.0  Concurrent=True  
Force=True  Server=True  InvocationCount=1  
IterationCount=20  LaunchCount=1  UnrollFactor=1  
WarmupCount=1  Version=0.8.0  OS=Microsoft Windows 10.0.19042  
DateTime=02/15/2021 18:06:38  

Method	Library	Clients	Throughput	Mean	Error	StdDev	Median
Performance1	ENet	500	101,278 msg/s	4,936.9 ms	374.38 ms	431.14 ms	5,014.2 ms
Performance2	ENet	500	710,820 msg/s	703.4 ms	39.89 ms	45.94 ms	689.7 ms
Performance1	NetCoreServer	500	66,635 msg/s	7,503.6 ms	730.83 ms	841.63 ms	6,947.8 ms
Performance2	NetCoreServer	500	68,048 msg/s	7,347.8 ms	17.61 ms	16.47 ms	7,349.3 ms
Performance1	LiteNetLib	500	89,309 msg/s	5,598.5 ms	37.54 ms	43.24 ms	5,594.9 ms
Performance2	LiteNetLib	500	786,067 msg/s	636.1 ms	7.30 ms	8.41 ms	639.5 ms
Performance1	Kcp2k	500	37,012 msg/s	13,509.2 ms	529.46 ms	609.73 ms	13,901.7 ms
Performance2	Kcp2k	500	117,231 msg/s	4,265.1 ms	46.64 ms	53.71 ms	4,264.8 ms