Cool project! The first feature put a smile on my face! “Built with rust so it’s fast” paraphrasing but yeah :)
Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
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Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#12Cool project! The first feature put a smile on my face! “Built with rust so it’s fast” paraphrasing but yeah :)
Thank you!
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe because of marketing reasons or because I am biased in the comparisons?
So open question: is nginx faster? I think this is really cool. More competition in this space is better not worse, I am merely curious to know how it stacks up
You’re comparing a new project to nginx. Obviously nginx will be faster maybe not across the board but generally it probably is. As a project matures it will optimize surely! nginx has 21 years of development under its belt.
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#14Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
So open question: is nginx faster? I think this is really cool. More competition in this space is better not worse, I am merely curious to know how it stacks up
You’re comparing a new project to nginx. Obviously nginx will be faster maybe not across the board but generally it probably is. As a project matures it will optimize surely! nginx has 21 years of development under its belt.
By that reasoning Apache should be faster than nginx, but alas.
https://pressable.com/blog/head-to-head-performance-comparis...
I think drawing any conclusions in the absence of benchmarks is unwise.
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
So open question: is nginx faster? I think this is really cool. More competition in this space is better not worse, I am merely curious to know how it stacks up
You’re comparing a new project to nginx. Obviously nginx will be faster maybe not across the board but generally it probably is. As a project matures it will optimize surely! nginx has 21 years of development under its belt.
Very detailed post. True dat.
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#17Yikes, there is a musician named Ferron who has been around forever, and her web site was formerly ferronweb.com. So I did a double take when I saw this. The musician's web site is ferronsongs.com now. Shadows on a Dime (from 1984) is a great album.
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#18Yikes, there is a musician named Ferron who has been around forever, and her web site was formerly ferronweb.com. So I did a double take when I saw this. The musician's web site is ferronsongs.com now. Shadows on a Dime (from 1984) is a great album.
Oh... Good to know!
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#19https://github.com/errantmind/faf is the fastest Rust static "web server" per the most recent TechEmpower Round 23 (Plaintext); it is purposely barebones (provide content via Rust callback!) The top 3 Composite scores are all Rust web frameworks, also not necessarily intended as general-purpose web servers. https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server wins the SEO (and GitHub star) battle, though apparently…
> the fastest ... purposely barebones
This piece of fiber cable is the fastest static web server.
It is purposely barebones, but I bet you, it does almost nothing to reduce the delivery of a static website. The trick is: The website is already in its final state when it gets piped through the fiber cable, so no processing is required. The templating and caching mechanism is left open for most flexibility.
I call it an OSI layer 1 web server.
The trick is to use fiber instead of copper.
Many webservers don't care about this.
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#20How does it handle slow loris?