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Ah shoot, poem's websocket implementation uses tokio_tungstenite like most of the other hyper-adjacent Rust web frameworks. It's unfortunate that library has become the default for websockets because the performance is rather lacking. (new allocations for each incoming message IIRC)

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Is there a good alternative in the tokio world currently? Actix-web does WebSockets but it expects to run on an actix executor AFAIK.

soketto has a hyper example. I haven't found a websocket benchmark that compares them, but you can see here that soketto let's you re-use a buffer: https://docs.rs/soketto/latest/src/soketto/connection.rs.htm... It's on my to-do list to try soketto, but the thought of benchmarking websocket implementations sounds tedious.

What's your preferred websocket implementation?

(copy-pasting what I said in sibling comment)

soketto has a hyper example. I haven't found a websocket benchmark that compares them, but you can see here that soketto let's you re-use a buffer: https://docs.rs/soketto/latest/src/soketto/connection.rs.htm... It's on my to-do list to try soketto, but the thought of benchmarking websocket implementations sounds tedious.

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