Netty.docs: Native transports

Netty.docs: Native transports

Since 4.0.16, Netty provides the native socket transport for Linux using JNI. This transport has higher performance and produces less garbage, so you might want to give it a try.

Using the native transport

Because the native transport is compatible with the NIO transport, you can just do the following search-and-replace:

• NioEventLoopGroup → EpollEventLoopGroup
• NioEventLoop → EpollEventLoop
• NioServerSocketChannel → EpollServerSocketChannel
• NioSocketChannel → EpollSocketChannel

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