Question

I am developing open source socket server library: https://sourceforge.net/projects/socketservers/

And I would to like to add socket reuse feature to this lib. I have implement draft of this feature, but I do not see any benefits in my tests. The client makes 32K connect-disconnects by 8 items to the server and measure the time. But here is no difference between reusing socket and not reusing socket – same time elapsed for this test.

What I am doing wrong in test?

What benefit should server get when reuse sockets, and how to measure this benefit?

Answer 1

The question is if the OS or the runtime does not perform the reuse automatically when invoking a new socket.
The Socket.Disconnect Method documentation points into this direction:

Closes the socket connection and allows reuse of the socket.

So this seem to be an over-optimization.