nimsync v1.1.0 - SPSC + MPSC Production Release
Multi-producer channel support with verified performance benchmarks.
What's New
MPSC Channels
import nimsync
import std/threadpool
# Create MPSC channel (multi-producer, single consumer)
let chan = newChannel[int](256, ChannelMode.MPSC)
# Multiple producers can safely send
proc producer(ch: Channel[int], id: int) =
for i in 0..<1000:
while not ch.trySend(i):
discard # Retry on full
spawn producer(chan, 1)
spawn producer(chan, 2)
sync()
# Single consumer receives from all
var value: int
while chan.tryReceive(value):
echo "Received: ", value
Performance (CI-Verified)
All numbers measured on 4-core Intel/AMD systems with -d:danger --opt:speed --mm:orc:
Mode Producers Micro-benchmark Realistic Threaded P99 Latency
SPSC 1 558M ops/sec ~35M ops/sec 31ns
MPSC 2 15M ops/sec ~15M ops/sec ~64ns
MPSC 4 8.5M ops/sec — ~117ns
MPSC 8 5.3M ops/sec — ~256ns
Key finding: SPSC is 3.5× faster than MPSC in realistic threaded workloads (35M vs 10M ops/sec).
Benchmarks
Run complete suite:
nim c -d:danger --opt:speed --mm:orc tests/performance/benchmark_mpsc.nim
./tests/performance/benchmark_mpsc
See README.md for detailed methodology.
Installation
nimble install nimsync
nimble install nimsync
Known Limitations
MPSC optimized for 2-4 producers (performance degrades with 8+)
Single consumer only (MPMC not yet implemented)
Async wrappers still use polling (1ms-100ms exponential backoff)
Roadmap
✅ v1.1.0: MPSC channels (DONE)
v1.2.0: Production-ready Streams
v2.0.0: Full async runtime with actors
Acknowledgments
Thanks to the Nim community for feedback and testing.
Special thanks to:
dbittman for wait-free MPSC algorithm research
JCTools team for MPSC queue patterns
Chronos maintainers for async foundation
Full Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md
Documentation: https://github.com/codenimja/nimsync
Benchmarks: README.md
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