Httpserver performance

[Alan Bateman]

On 05/07/2024 18:41, Robert Engels wrote:
> Some that follow this list might be interested in the latest release 
> of my httpserver - which is a port of the JDK one - designed for 
> virtual threads (no async, no synchronized blocks) at 
> https://github.com/robaho/httpserver
>
> It shows nearly 3x performance on the tech empower low-level benchmarks.
>
> I attribute most of the performance gain due to it supporting http 
> pipelining, which I think should be easy to backport in the JDK 
> version. There are some other micro improvements that help quite a bit 
> for these types of tests. As it is, it is able to saturate a 1gbit 
> ethernet link.

Thanks for the post, it's interesting to this fork being used for 
performance testing. As you probably know, the original motive for this 
HTTP server was something basic to support XML web services callbacks. 
Today it provides an on-ramp to web development with local testing. It's 
also useful for other testing too, or just to serve up API docs or other 
content. It's never been a goal to have it be competitive in either 
features or performances when compared to other HTTP servers. Just 
saying to explain why there hasn't been a interest on net-dev to add 
pipelining or other features.

-Alan