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World faster web server

Posted by proyb, 12-12-2010, 12:14 PM
I found G-wan is consider the world faster web server powered by ANSI C. Anyone used them for dedicate server?

Posted by drspliff, 12-13-2010, 11:02 AM
The benchmarks are misleading, you can achieve similar performance by writing modules for Apache, nGinx, Lighttpd etc. or by using libevent/evhttp directly. Unless you're capable of and entirely willing to write your sites in C then this isn't really a viable option.

Posted by proyb, 12-13-2010, 12:17 PM
Well, actually the benchmark does make sense and found to be out perform than nginx, apache or even cheeroke, the code isn't really hard to understand with HTML and basic C for database and simple operation. We have tested and found G-wan excel, of course, it will connected to Apache and maybe PHP soon, it look as it going to be the best web server as fast as Google.

Posted by drspliff, 12-13-2010, 01:45 PM
The benchmark essentially compares the speed of Java/JSP, PHP and C# running in different environments to compiled C. I don't feel like this is a reasonable benchmark as it has little to do with the webserver - you're essentially comparing the other languages to C which has already been done to death. The separate webserver benchmarks are reasonable, but I'm not seeing such a disparity in results, 130k requests/second compared to 100k for nginx for example (tested with 1 to 10k concurrent connections with a variety of different file sizes).

Posted by proyb, 12-13-2010, 09:52 PM
I feel evhttp if using multi-thread to speed up would be stupidity idea while single thread seem to take longer by 10x as seen in other blog. You are welcome to benchmark it and post fair comparison? I like to see how it compare too since I not good in writing test case.

Posted by curious_g-wan_user, 12-17-2010, 04:29 PM
Aren't the C scripts compiled-on-the-fly each time you press F5 (trustleap.com/en_timeline.html)- so it's a fair comparison right? ...run on webserver - or I'am missing the usefulness of the loan test (trustleap.com/en_developers.html)?



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