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`ehttpd`

Welcome to ehttpd 🎉

ehttpd is a thread-based HTTP server library, which can be used to create custom HTTP server applications.

Thread-based design

The rationale behind the thread-based approach is that

Performance

While the thread-based approach is not the most efficient out there, it’s not that bad either. Some wrk benchmarks:

MacBook Pro (`M1 Pro`, `helloworld`)

$ 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     1.19ms  254.31us   8.62ms   75.59%
    Req/Sec   846.72     55.87     1.29k    72.11%
544736 requests in 10.10s, 27.02MB read
Requests/sec:  53927.49
Transfer/sec:      2.67MB

Old Linux Machine (`Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz`, `helloworld-nokeepalive`)

$ 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