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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

this is like when I built that web server in x86 assembly lol.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

This. This project drained my soul lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

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.

Assembly is not magic go faster sauce.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Who do you think is better at writing assembly? @[email protected] or a modern compiler with hundreds of contributors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It’s definitely not me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

yeah, in one sense it was lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I once write a web app in C, but this terrifies even me.. though Tsoding, the guy in the video, did that, too..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

My favorite so far is either my websever in bash or my webserver in Common Lisp. my webserver in C was fun too though