poker-epoll

Learning async reactors and modern C++.

Prerequisites

• CMake >= 3.26
• A C++23 compiler (clang++ or g++)
• git (CMake FetchContent pulls dependencies from GitHub)
• pthread support (standard on Linux; not actually used but required for build)

Build

From the repository root:

cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build -j 4

Notes:

• If CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is not set, this project defaults to Debug.
• First configure/build may take longer because dependencies are downloaded.

Run Tests

Run all discovered tests:

ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure

Run tests matching a pattern:

ctest --test-dir build -R table --output-on-failure

Run a single test binary directly:

./build/cards_tests

Next Steps

• Add action timeouts on the server side (support exists via table)
• Fuzz test inputs
• Factor out epoll code into some sort of small library
• Support io_uring as a drop-in replacement for epoll
• Performance test epoll against io_uring
• Persist player purses across server restart and client sessions, and have the server remember client identities somehow (e.g. cookie persisted on client)
• Use std::meta to write the proto_translate layer when it comes out