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this is like when I built that web server in x86 assembly lol.
This. This project drained my soul lol.
I bet that thing was fast!
I mean, just because you implemented something in a low level lang, it doesn't mean you're gonna have the fastest implementation. Even in high level langs, there's usually heavy optimization involved in things that are done all the time (e.g. web servers)
Meh. Even hosting static files in a RAM disk over localhost, you're 99% as good as you can be by using the
sendfile()system call. The kernel can copy data from one file descriptor to another faster than any userspace program can. Implementing theLengthheader is astat()call.If you're not on a RAM disk and not on localhost, then disk access or network throughput will predominate.
Assembly is not magic go faster sauce.
Who do you think is better at writing assembly? @harbard@fedia.io or a modern compiler with hundreds of contributors.
It’s definitely not me
yeah, in one sense it was lol.
I once write a web app in C, but this terrifies even me.. though Tsoding, the guy in the video, did that, too..
My favorite so far is either my websever in bash or my webserver in Common Lisp. my webserver in C was fun too though