Yes, that was my second thought. I haven't looked at the http parsing in Jetty yet, but the Simple-libraries doesn't seem to match that well since the parsing are spread out in many different places (at least that's what I gathered after a cursory look).
/O ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles O Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, June 18, 2006 6:27 am Subject: Re: [Jruby-devel] Mongrel support. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > I'd say to look at what the other fast HTTP servers are using; > jetty and > simple are both very fast, and whatever they're using for HTTP > parsing might > be neatly packaged. I'm sure there's others out there, but those > are the > only two I know of. Tomcat has improved, but I think it's HTTP > parser is not > as fast as those others. > > 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 > HTTPparsing 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Jruby-devel mailing list > > Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jruby-devel > > > > > > -- > Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com > JRuby Developer @ jruby.sourceforge.net > Application Architect @ www.ventera.com > _______________________________________________ Jruby-devel mailing list Jruby-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jruby-devel
