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by shenedu 4891 days ago
Hey, http-kit's author here. willing to answer any questions.
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What's different about http-kit vs say netty that allows it to handle so many connections / be so fast?
Linux's epoll or FreeBSD's Kqueue is ridiculous scalable. Both http-kit and netty take advantage of it. http-kit is all about HTTP, netty is a general framework.