httpbeast
A highly performant, multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server written in Nim.
This is a project to get the fastest possible HTTP server written in pure Nim. It is currently in the top 10 in the TechEmpower benchmarks.
Note: This HTTP server does not support Windows.
Features
Current features include:
- Built on the Nim
selectors
module which makes efficient use of epoll on Linux and kqueue on macOS. - Automatic parallelization, just make sure to compile with
--threads:on
. - Support for HTTP pipelining.
- On-demand parser so that only the requested data is parsed.
- Integration with Nim's
asyncdispatch
allowing async/await to be used in the request callback whenever necessary.