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by okeuro49 1087 days ago
Your comment makes nginx sound like some fly-by-night server that only achieved its performance by making lots of tiny-yet-dangerous "optimisations" like this one.

More likely it is an omission, which could be rectified with a warning or failure running nginx -t (verify configuration).

The actual performance comes from an architectural choice between event vs process based servers, as detailed in the C10k problem article. [1]

[1] http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

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False, the actual performance comes from architectural differences and optimizations.