ehttpdWelcome 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 codes, 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 – via the OS' scheduler, threads offer much strong concurrency isolation guarantees, which
in most environments can even be niced or tweaked if appropriate.
While the thread-based approach is not the most efficient out there, it's not that bad either. Some wrk benchmarks:
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 1.06ms 1.22ms 49.72ms 99.45%
Req/Sec 0.99k 144.55 1.45k 69.14%
637486 requests in 10.10s, 31.61MB read
Requests/sec: 63105.97
Transfer/sec: 3.13MB
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