Show HN: Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler • Hacker News Board

If anyone finds this interesting, and would like to drill down into this type of low level code, I highly recomment "Programming from the Ground Up" by Jonathan Bartlett [1]. It is an excellent introduction to assembler, and programming in general.

[1] http://freecomputerbooks.com/Programming-from-the-Ground-Up....

Re: Show HN: Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler

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Post by Ellipsis753 » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

Interesting read and I like it. I'll have to read it more on my Desktop. I get a HTTPS error on my android phone however.

You might be missing an intermediate certificate. (Just a heads up.)

Re: Show HN: Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

Annotations aside, this is actually more readable than a lot of C code I've seen.

Re: Show HN: Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler

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Post by vmorgulis » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:21 PM UTC

It is very interesting.

I like the simplicity of the system calls.

With DynASM (a subproject of LuaJIT), it is possible to target more platforms with this kind beauty.

http://luajit.org/dynasm_features.html

Re: Show HN: Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler

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Post by jaddison » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

Ellipsis753 wrote: post #5

Interesting read and I like it. I'll have to read it more on my Desktop. I get a HTTPS error on my android phone however. You might be missing an intermediate certificate. (Just a heads up.)

As do I on my Android lollipop 5.1.

Re: Show HN: Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler

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Post by elmar » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

Simply beautiful and elegant, probably very fast and with a very small memory footprint.

Re: Show HN: Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler

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Post by zrkzrk » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 8:54 PM UTC

jaddison wrote: post #8

Ellipsis753 wrote: post #5

Interesting read and I like it. I'll have to read it more on my Desktop. I get a HTTPS error on my android phone however. You might be missing an intermediate certificate. (Just a heads up.)

As do I on my Android lollipop 5.1.

Thanks, I will look into this. After running ssl test from ssl labs and I some alarming issues https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=zarkzork.com I should have done it earlier