Welcome to ehttpd
🎉
ehttpd
is a thread-based HTTP server library, which can be used to create custom HTTP server applications.
The rationale behind the thread-based approach is that it is much easier to implement than async/await
, subsequently
requires less code, and is – in theory – less error prone.
Furthermore, it also simplifies application development since the developer cannot accidentally stall the entire runtime
with a single blocking call – managed by the OS-scheduler, threads offer much stronger concurrency isolation guarantees
(which can even be nice
d or tweaked in most environments if desired).
While the thread-based approach is not the most efficient out there, it's not that bad either. Some wrk
benchmarks:
$ wrk -t 64 -c 64 http://localhost:9999/testolope
Running 10s test @ http://localhost:9999/testolope
64 threads and 64 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 1.00ms 520.00us 27.29ms 95.96%
Req/Sec 1.02k 262.37 6.00k 94.81%
654074 requests in 10.10s, 32.44MB read
Requests/sec: 64756.19
Transfer/sec: 3.21MB
$ wrk -t 64 -c 64 http://localhost:9999/testolope
Running 10s test @ http://localhost:9999/testolope
64 threads and 64 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 2.22ms 1.00ms 60.93ms 95.30%
Req/Sec 435.19 56.94 1.00k 85.05%
278046 requests in 10.10s, 18.83MB read
Requests/sec: 27528.42
Transfer/sec: 1.86MB