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AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

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Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

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post #19

Reminds me a little of D's official forums, which load faster than you can close your eyes to blink. I love these kind of projects.

Oh yeah it's immediately noticeable. How did they do it? https://forum.dlang.org/

Its open source iirc it uses MongoDB and redis for caching, worthy of noting is that you can also browse and download that entire board with a Newsgroups client. It also posts to IRC as well.

Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#32
post #29

Despite being someone who wrote x86 assembly for years on DOS in the 90s before learning C (and even continued in at&t syntax on Linux for some time), I find this to be a silly exercise in time wasting beyond its academic and comedic/entertainment value.

"silly exercise in time wasting beyond its academic and comedic/entertainment value"

I love this as it expresses how I feel about JavaScript :P

Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#33

Processing time is insanely fast according to the footer. But the time it takes to transfer the document to Denmark is 500 - 1000ms. Seems like a CDN is better than performant code in this case... Still an impressive feat.

I'm in the Azores islands, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and it loaded in under 500ms.

Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#34
post #33

Processing time is insanely fast according to the footer. But the time it takes to transfer the document to Denmark is 500 - 1000ms. Seems like a CDN is better than performant code in this case... Still an impressive feat.

I'm in the Azores islands, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and it loaded in under 500ms.

Latvia here, 256ms according to FF

Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#35
post #4

I couldn't read the article on mobile due to live notifications.

Tap the Bell icon to disable the live notifications.

I can’t do that either because the notifications pile up and cover the button.

Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#36
post #26
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh yeah it's immediately noticeable. How did they do it? https://forum.dlang.org/

Use a fast language and forget some of the old advice from "12 factor apps," some of which are focused on avoiding common challenges when scaling low-performance platforms.

Which ones did you have in mind?

Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#37
This is super cool, though I very much doubt the following statement:

> AsmBB is very secure web application, because of the internal design and the reduced dependencies.

There's a lot of value in using well tested dependencies, and even Chuck Norris will have bugs writing complex software in assembly. Especially when doing string manipulation which this project should be doing a lot of.

Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#38
post #29

Despite being someone who wrote x86 assembly for years on DOS in the 90s before learning C (and even continued in at&t syntax on Linux for some time), I find this to be a silly exercise in time wasting beyond its academic and comedic/entertainment value.

"silly exercise in time wasting beyond its academic and comedic/entertainment value" I love this as it expresses how I feel about JavaScript :P

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Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#39
post #30
post #4

I couldn't read the article on mobile due to live notifications.

Dear AsmBB.org admin: Have those be turned off by default. They're annoying even when they don't occlude the entire screen.

Especially for guests viewing the page. No one really needs to know that a random person loaded the page. If there is some kind of friend/follow functionality for logged in users, and they want to enable notifications for them, ok, but that’s about as far as it should ever go.

Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

#40
post #4

I couldn't read the article on mobile due to live notifications.

Yep, the alerts occlude must/most of the page. This is probably the first time the creator's encountered HN rush hour.

it's definitely not the first time the project has gotten traction on hn (eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37285156)
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