single threaded web servers

[Erez D]

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 2:00 PM, guy keren <guy.choo.keren at gmail.com> wrote:

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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thttpd

dont know if it fits my requierments but last version dated 2014

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> and
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> https://www.lighttpd.net/

uses fastcgi. fastcgi is multithreaded.

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> both existed before anyone used javascript on server side, as far as i know
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> (and they are written in C, not C++)
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> --guy
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> On 07/02/2016 10:49 AM, Erez D wrote:
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>> doing some research on servers i found out that i can handle more
>> connections simultaneously as single threaded.
>> on thread per connection i have a huge overhead, just think of the
>> default 2MB stack per connection - 1000 connections is 2GB ram just for
>> stack.
>> however as single threaded, i can server connections by the 10,000s(or
>> even a million).
>>
>> later to my surprise, i found out that that was exactly one of the main
>> considerations behind node.js
>>
>> but node.js requires code in js. and i am more of a c++ guy
>> (and of course c++ is more efficient than js)
>>
>> C++ did a long way and now modern c++ (i.e. c++11 / c++14 ) is on par
>> with other modern languages.
>> the idea behind c++11/14 was to make it simple for beginners, while
>> still keeping the option to control every bit for advanced users.
>> one thing i hear people hate about c and c++ is its memory handling
>> (malloc/free or new/delete), however in forgot about it years ago using
>> shared_ptr ( now in c++11 and before that, use boost instead).. you can
>> still control when it is freed if you want (in countrary to
>> garbage-disposal-thread languages). as a matter of fact, i use this a
>> lot - i create an object that cleans up,. and no matter how i exit the
>> function it gets cleaned up.
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>> so i wanted a node.c++ instead of writing my own
>>
>> in theory simple single threaded web server usage code could look
>> something like:
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>> int main()
>> {
>>    auto server=HttpServer::create(80,[](Request &request)
>>      {
>>        if (request.header=="HelloWorld")
>>        {
>>           HttpResponse(200,"<H1>Hello, world</h1>");
>>        } else {
>>          File::Read(request,header,[](bool success, string body)
>>            {
>>               if (success)
>>                 HttpResponse(400,body);
>>            } else {
>>                 HttpResponse(404);
>>            }
>>          );
>>        }
>>      }
>>    );
>> }
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>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com
>> <mailto:amos.shapira at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>     I'm curious - what's the background of this question? What's the
>>     original goal that led you to ask this?
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>>     On 28 June 2016 at 18:04, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:erez0001 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>         i tried searching the web but got no result
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>>         what web servers other than node.js are single threaded ?
>>         anyone has experience with one ?
>>         is there one in which the cgi is in c++ ?
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