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by nine_k 1842 days ago
The design goal is not top performance here. It is simplicity, observability of the source, and security.

It absolutely will fail under a DDoS-like punishing load which, say, nginx would have a chance to fend off.

It's still plenty adequate for many real-world configurations and load patterns, much like Apache 1.x has been. Only this is like 2% the size of the Apache 1.x.