Difference of providers ('Netty', 'JDK', 'Apache' or 'Grizzly') ?

Gatling (Open-Source)
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What’s the difference of the configurable providers (‘Netty’, ‘JDK’, ‘Apache’ or ‘Grizzly’)?
Or rather what impact do their usage have to gatling?

I’d prefer using “JDK” because I can drop the dependencies to “netty” (at pom) and it sounds more “standard” to me, but “netty” is the default setting - I wonder why.

Regards Danny

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They are different network stacks.
Why is Netty the default ?

  • it’s the fastest
  • we do all our tests with it

If you go with the JDK, expect to see a performance drop.

cheers
Nicolas

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I see, thanks for the explanation.

Danny