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by linschn 608 days ago
I would be honestly surprised if any listen server ever experience heavy loads ;) this is more targeted at smolweb-scale hosts.

On current hardware it can serve up to a few hundreds requests/s without too much trouble.

There's also the trick of pre starting a pool of processes beforehand and handing the data to them when it comes. It is not implemented in listen yet, but would not be too hard to do.

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> I would be honestly surprised if any listen server ever experience heavy loads ;) this is more targeted at smolweb-scale hosts.

This was true of cgi scripts written in perl too, until they made the frontpage of slashdot.