ift-ts:dst:status:2026q1-status-evaluation
Description
Realizing chat protocol benchmarks on status-go will allow the Status and Waku team to perform non-regression performance tests for chat protocols. Also, this will allow quantify improvements tackled by Waku Chat team. The benchmarks will be done for communities, with emphasis on subscription and store performance, and private chats, with emphasis on contact requests, 1-1 messages and group messages.
Background
The following scenarios will help review what kind of improvements and changes can be made to the chat protocols, and see if more baseline benchmarks are needed to be measured in FURPS.
Task list
Benchmarks second iteration
- fully qualified name:
ift-ts:dst:status:2026q1-status-evaluation:benchmarks-second-iteration - owner: Alberto
- status: in progress (50%)
- start-date: 2026/01/01
- end-date: 2026/01/31
Description
Using the fix in the discovery process for the relay nodes to repeat the benchmarks adding light nodes in the same chat protocol benchmarks scenarios. Also, perform nwaku-based vs go-waku-based status-backend comparisons.
This task is a mix of vac:dst:waku:2025q4-waku-scaling:nwaku-in-status-desktop and
vac:dst:status:2025q4-status-evaluation:chat-protocol-benchmarks-followup.