Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server

http://tia.mat.br/blog/html/2014/10/06/life_of_a_http_request.html

by caio1982 • 12 years ago

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Nican• 12 years ago

I wonder how this compares to http://gwan.com/

mahmud• 12 years ago

Last time GWAN came up it didn't fare well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109698

arthurcolle• 12 years ago

What is the font you are using for source code?

necubi• 12 years ago

It's Source Code Pro (http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=d...).

vinkelhake• 12 years ago

This is a very nice article, I'm just getting confused by the prefix trie part. I'd be happy if someone could explain. The text says that the structure only has eight pointers per node and fills one cache line exactly.

But looking at the code, the struct is larger than 64 bytes so it won't fit into one cache line. Even if we just look at the first 64 bytes of the struct (the array), the nodes are allocated using plain calloc which (on your typical linux system, but not guaranteeed) is going to give you memory aligned to 16 bytes.

acidx2• 12 years ago

Author here. Yes, you're right -- the whole structure is larger than 64 bytes, but the pointers to the child nodes all fit in 8 pointers only (in contrast with the previous version, which had 256 pointers instead). Maybe I need to adjust the wording to make this clear.

mangamadaiyan• 12 years ago

The section on Coroutines links to itself; perhaps you meant it to link to your other article on Coroutines? (http://tia.mat.br/blog/html/2012/09/29/asynchronous_i_o_in_c...)

duongkai• 12 years ago

A little question: what is the name of the color scheme using in this article?

gnocchi• 12 years ago

Looks like solarized https://github.com/altercation/solarized

enapupe2• 12 years ago

../../

enapupe2• 12 years ago

../

Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server

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