[Varelion]

Interesting.

If this is the case, I do wonder why we do not see more of this.

Were you around for the original design phase? Why was C chosen? Did you and yours collect performance metrics to see if anything meaningful was gained?

[drdec]

I was not around for the original design. Plus this was very early in my career. It was also early web, around the year 2000.

The architecture involved a custom Apache httpd module to handle requests. That most likely drove the decision to use C.

The system was eventually rewritten in Python, after I had moved on.

I'm not aware of any performance metrics.