Query on NetIO having counters for no. of interactions

[kalyancheerla]

As far as I can see the IOChannel or NetIO classes doesn't have counters to count the number of interactions between the parties (alice and bob). Is it something that I can contribute?, as I need it for counting the communication rounds just like byte counter.

[kalyancheerla]

I guess counting them in here wouldn't work because during the interaction multiple calls of send and receive could be performed at a time one after another thus having uneven counters in here. Hence making the logic of counting interactions to not work properly.

Please close this, if thats how it is.

[wangxiao1254]

You can do it by setting up a flag that keeps track of the last operation (if it is send or recv) then if the current op is different from the last one, that means one more round of communication. However, it adds a little bit of overhead; if you would like to have it, I would encourage putting a macro around it.

[kalyancheerla]

Thanks for the suggestion! I went ahead and implemented it with a macro guard as you mentioned. I’ve raised a PR #201 with the changes — feel free to review and merge it whenever you get a chance. Appreciate your input!

[kalyancheerla]

We can wrap the byte counter too along with this macro ENABLE_COMM_STATS but might break any old codes. Let me know about the same. Happy to help!