I think a large selling point of Mongrel is, along with security, the fact that it's so fast. Until we can fulfill all aspects of what makes Mongrel so impressive, we can at least wire in a library for doing fast-enough HTTP parsing to allow using Mongrel as a fast WEBrick replacement.
On 6/17/06, Ola Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
There has been some discussion about the option of supporting Mongrel in
JRuby, and how much effort this would take. As some maybe know, Mongrel
is mostly Ruby (> 1.8.4), but the http-parser library is writtein in C.
I've taken a look at the source code, and as far as I can see, this
shouldn't take much effort to convert into JRuby. The only thing that
could be a problem is the parser itself, which is compiled with a finite
state machine compiler called Ragel. The generated C-code is about 1000
lines with loads and loads of gotos, which means it won't translate
cleanly to Java. I haven't really found a way to generate Java from
Ragel definitions yet, so the options are either to hand craft a
Http-parser or find another CC that can generate Java from Ragel-like
instructions. Since one of Mongrels main points is the safety and
security benefits from a machine generated parser, it seems like it
would defeat the purpose of Mongrel to write it ourselves.
Opinions?
/O
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