Servasm
Infrastructure
web server
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
6 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Readable and elegant, beautiful design for a low-level project
From 3 comments
At first I was thinking "For the love of bog why?", but then I started reading, and couldn't stop reading.
mlitchard on HNSimply beautiful and elegant, probably very fast and with a very small memory footprint.
elmar on HNAnnotations aside, this is actually more readable than a lot of C code I've seen.
vezzy-fnord on HN
Interesting and educational
From 2 comments
That's really fascinating and interesting and educating. Now every other http server implementation should need to explain every byte it is larger and every ms it is slower it…
pointernil on HNIt is very interesting. I like the simplicity of the system calls. With DynASM (a subproject of LuaJIT), it is possible to target more platforms with this kind beauty.…
vmorgulis on HN
Objections
HTTPS certificate error on Android, missing intermediate certificate
From 3 comments
Interesting read and I like it. I'll have to read it more on my Desktop. I get a HTTPS error on my android phone however. You might be missing an intermediate certificate. (Just…
Ellipsis753 on HNAs do I on my Android lollipop 5.1.
jaddison on HNAndroid mobile browser requires the full signature chain of authorities who signed the site certificate[0]. It is done to avoid calls to CA servers and reduce network use on…
dmytrish on HN
Not really literate programming, just well-commented code
From 1 comment
Very nice. However, I wonder who started this trend of bundling "better commented code" with "literate programming" though? I appreciate the layout and hyperlinks etc - but this…
e12e on HN
Requests
Benchmark against nginx
From 1 comment
Would love to see benchmark on this versus nginx for fun!
dingdingdang on HN
Questions
How does it perform compared to nginx
From 3 comments
Would love to see benchmark on this versus nginx for fun!
dingdingdang on HNnginx is highly configurable at compile time. You can strip out a considerable amount of functionality (modules, in nginx lingo) for performance.
chralieboy on HNIIRC, Nginx can use sendfile too, it's just not there by default because the transfer happens entirely in kernel space and hence you cannot apply filters like gzip on the…
filsmick on HN
Alternatives named
nginx
From 2 comments
Would love to see benchmark on this versus nginx for fun!
dingdingdang on HNnginx is highly configurable at compile time. You can strip out a considerable amount of functionality (modules, in nginx lingo) for performance.
chralieboy on HN
Programming from the Ground Up (assembly book)
From 1 comment
If anyone finds this interesting, and would like to drill down into this type of low level code, I highly recomment "Programming from the Ground Up" by Jonathan Bartlett [1]. It…
marktangotango on HN