Wow. Someone who has heard of Gatling. -L
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, billywhizz <[email protected]> wrote: > heh. proves your point. for now. i'm not dissing nginx btw - i love > nginx. i also like lighttpd and gatling a lot too, but there are many > scenarios where you may not want to serve static files from a separate > server listening on a separate port. node.js is also easily > programmable, none of the other static file servers are. anyway, i'll > keep posting up benchmarks so we have something real to argue about > and have a goal to aim at in terms of optimization. > > let me know if there are any further nginx optimisations that can be > done. as far as i can see this is a minimal nginx configuration with > no extra modules but there are probably tweaks that can be made to it. > i'll download an build a later version of nginx when i get a chance. > > On Feb 15, 12:42 am, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM, billywhizz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Matt, there are all sorts of optimisations available. if you really >> > want top performance, then you could write a c++ module that does >> > static file serving and can be easily plugged into a node.js http >> > server. >> >> Yes, but why would you do that, when there's perfectly good open source >> code (nginx) to do it already? >> >> > it would be able to spend most of it's time in c++ land >> > serving static files so there is no reason it could not be as fast as >> > nginx. also, nginx is only optimised once - at compile time. in v8, >> > the JIT compiler has the opportunity to optimise on the fly as the >> > load on the server changes. this is a big advantage over something >> > like nginx and it wouldn't surprise me at all to see a node.js >> > solution match or out perform nginx at static file serving in the near >> > future. >> >> It's *very* rare for a JIT to do better than compiled C, except on very >> synthetic hard looping problems - HTTP serving really doesn't fit into that. >> >> > i've put a very basic benchmark up here: >> >https://gist.github.com/1831760 >> >> Thank you. Kind of proves my point. Nginx serves more data, from the >> filesystem, faster, is checking for changes to the file, isn't doing >> sendfile(), etc. At least you turned logging off :) >> >> But I really appreciate seeing real numbers. >> >> Matt. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
