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by rkeene2 1784 days ago
My static file HTTP server called "filed" [0] will satisfy a request in as few as 1 system call (no memcpy involved -- the kernel reads the file and sends the buffer to the NIC), by using sendfile(2). Most other webservers do a bit more work, like open the file for every request.

[0] http://filed.rkeene.org/