alt Hacker NewsI’m curious what the performance of this implementation is versus a server written in C, C++, or Rust. How much performance can a human still squeeze out at the assembly level versus today’s state of the art compilers?
I’m curious what the performance of this implementation is versus a server written in C, C++, or Rust. How much performance can a human still squeeze out at the assembly level versus today’s state of the art compilers?
> I’m curious what the performance of this implementation is
Almost certainly crap.
As the author states, it's a simple fork-on-request server, which was state-of-the-art in about 1996. But that's not the point.