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Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by StavrosK » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 4:01 AM UTC

puppetmaster3 wrote: post #17

Likely does not have any back door. Rumor is GCC opens back door for you know who.

Voldemort?

Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by meshko » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 4:14 AM UTC

OMG all these macros. It looks more like Python then Assembly. Come on, real men do not use macros.

Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by optymizer » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 4:16 AM UTC

ars_technician wrote: post #4

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is obviously a toy, or PoC.

I don't know about calling it a piece of crap. Seems a little harsh. :-)

I don't normally see 'piece of crap' written as PoC. I'm used to seeing PoS used often. I usually see PoC as 'proof of concept'.

Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by zw123456 » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 4:24 AM UTC

Very cool I think. But cooler, Web Server on a FPGA, without CPU, only VHDL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7syu5EC1OWg

Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by solistice » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 4:30 AM UTC

jamestanderson wrote: post #5

ars_technician wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about calling it a piece of crap. Seems a little harsh. :-)

It could mean proof of concept.

Incidentally, I read it the other way as well.

Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by UNIXgod » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 4:31 AM UTC

ars_technician wrote: post #4

hcarvalhoalves wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is obviously a toy, or PoC.

I don't know about calling it a piece of crap. Seems a little harsh. :-)

Definitely meant it's ROFL web scale, asynchronous, non-blocking, event driven, message passing, nosql, sharded, clusters of highly available, reliable, high performance, real time, bad ass, rockstar, get the girls, get the funding, get the IPO, impress your mom, impress your cat ... applications.

Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 4:44 AM UTC

puppetmaster3 wrote: post #17

Likely does not have any back door. Rumor is GCC opens back door for you know who.

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Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by Vektorweg » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 5:00 AM UTC

I'm really happy that executable size doesn't matter for server software. Because Yesod produce really big execs.

Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by UNIXgod » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 5:07 AM UTC

meshko wrote: post #22

OMG all these macros. It looks more like Python then Assembly. Come on, real men do not use macros.

ahh yes, real programmers twiddle bits on their hard drive with a nothing more than a tiny magnet:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

Re: TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly

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Post by knappador » Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 5:28 AM UTC

tokenizer wrote: post #2

As a web developer who isn't familiar with assembly or any web server more barebones than nginx, what benefits does something like this provide? Speed? Could this be a solution for an extremely simple directory/static file web server?

This is normally the kind of question I ask about anything involving HTML/CSS only or JS only =D PoC's based on low-level concepts are the ones that make you curious about everything from top to bottom. Even though assembly is the least abstract and most esoteric of programming (some would argue opposite) spaces, the program actually reveals itself quite quickly knowing just a few tid-bits. This is how you get to see that even the most low-level aspects of programming are quite accessible.