single threaded web servers

[Amos Shapira]

Thanks for the explanation. I like this.
How would a single-threaded process take advantage of muti- CPU?
On 2 Jul 2016 5:49 PM, "Erez D" <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> so i wanted a node.c++ instead of writing my own
>
> in theory simple single threaded web server usage code could look
> something like:
>
> 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);
>           }
>         );
>       }
>     }
>   );
> }
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm curious - what's the background of this question? What's the original
>> goal that led you to ask this?
>>
>> On 28 June 2016 at 18:04, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> i tried searching the web but got no result
>>>
>>> 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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