cloudflare/boringtun

Add benchmarks comparing boringtun with wireguard-go and official kernel-space impl

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#102 opened on Sep 10, 2019

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Description

It would be great if you could add some performance stats for boringtun. I would be also interested in comparison with the kernel-space implementation and wireguard-go.

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Set up a benchmarking framework in Rust using criterion, then compile and run performance tests for boringtun, wireguard go, and the kernel WireGuard implementation. Compare throughput and latency under various conditions.
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rust
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networking
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