ehttpd

Welcome to ehttpd 🎉

ehttpd is a thread-based HTTP server library, which can be used to create custom HTTP server applications.

Thread-based design

The rationale behind the thread-based approach is that

Performance

While the thread-based approach is not the most efficient out there, it's not that bad either. Some wrk benchmarks:

MacBook Pro (M1 Pro, keep-alive)

ignore $ 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 1.19ms 254.31us 8.62ms 75.59% Req/Sec 846.72 55.87 1.29k 72.11% 544736 requests in 10.10s, 27.02MB read Requests/sec: 53927.49 Transfer/sec: 2.67MB

MacBook Pro (M1 Pro, helloworld)

ignore $ 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 1.19ms 254.31us 8.62ms 75.59% Req/Sec 846.72 55.87 1.29k 72.11% 544736 requests in 10.10s, 27.02MB read Requests/sec: 53927.49 Transfer/sec: 2.67MB

Old Linux Machine (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz, helloworld-nokeepalive)

ignore $ wrk -t 64 -c 64 -H "Connection: Close" http://localhost:9999/testolope Running 10s test @ http://localhost:9999/testolope 64 threads and 64 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 5.24ms 8.11ms 192.14ms 96.63% Req/Sec 226.54 64.93 1.34k 87.69% 144670 requests in 10.10s, 7.04MB read Socket errors: connect 0, read 144670, write 0, timeout 0 Requests/sec: 14326.33 Transfer/sec: 713.64KB