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 the Length header is a stat() call.
If you’re not on a RAM disk and not on localhost, then disk access or network throughput will predominate.
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)
this is like when I built that web server in x86 assembly lol.
I bet that thing was fast!
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.
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)