[kragen]

This is a followup to Gold's previous post that served 200 million requests per day with CGI, which Simon Willison wrote a post about, which we had a thread about three days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44476716. It addresses some of the misconceptions that were common in that thread.

Summary:

- 60 virtual AMD Genoa CPUs with 240 GB (!!!) of RAM

- bash guestbook CGI: 40 requests per second (and a warning not to do such a thing)

- Perl guestbook CGI: 500 requests per second

- JS (Node) guestbook CGI: 600 requests per second

- Python guestbook CGI: 700 requests per second

- Golang guestbook CGI: 3400 requests per second

- Rust guestbook CGI: 5700 requests per second

- C guestbook CGI: 5800 requests per second

https://github.com/Jacob2161/cgi-bin

I wonder if the gohttpd web server he was using was actually the bottleneck for the Rust and C versions?