Comments on: thumper: My Ugly Little Ocaml Web Server http://www.vector-seven.com/2007/07/17/thumper-my-ugly-little-ocaml-web-server/ My software development thoughts, experiments and discoveries Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:28:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: tom http://www.vector-seven.com/2007/07/17/thumper-my-ugly-little-ocaml-web-server/#comment-1297 tom Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:47:11 +0000 http://www.vector-seven.com/2007/07/17/thumper-my-ugly-little-ocaml-web-server/#comment-1297 Hi Bill, It's important to note that this is a really, really incomplete implementation of a web server. There's little to no URI parsing (URIs are mapped directly to actions - even query strings. Bad URIs will likely be accepted). Writing a "proper" web server needs a lot more work than what I put into this. The reason it does so well in the numbers is because it doesn't really do all that much. :) I'm sorry if I didn't make that a little more clear! Cheers, T Hi Bill,

It’s important to note that this is a really, really incomplete implementation of a web server. There’s little to no URI parsing (URIs are mapped directly to actions - even query strings. Bad URIs will likely be accepted). Writing a “proper” web server needs a lot more work than what I put into this. The reason it does so well in the numbers is because it doesn’t really do all that much. :)
I’m sorry if I didn’t make that a little more clear!

Cheers,
T

]]> By: Bill Hacker http://www.vector-seven.com/2007/07/17/thumper-my-ugly-little-ocaml-web-server/#comment-1294 Bill Hacker Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:16:47 +0000 http://www.vector-seven.com/2007/07/17/thumper-my-ugly-little-ocaml-web-server/#comment-1294 Thomas, Quite an amazing example! A mere 249 lines of Ocaml (188 stripped of whitespace and comments), and it http-perf and webbench astonishingly good numbers! Nothing raises interest in a language better than *readable* code samples that 'JFW'. Ruby? Python? Simple languages with insanely complex apps (Zope/Plone, Rails ... 'Bend over, grab your ankles, ... and kiss your anatomy goodbye...!!!' Bill Thomas,

Quite an amazing example!

A mere 249 lines of Ocaml (188 stripped of whitespace and comments), and it http-perf and webbench astonishingly good numbers!

Nothing raises interest in a language better than *readable* code samples that ‘JFW’.

Ruby? Python? Simple languages with insanely complex apps (Zope/Plone, Rails …

‘Bend over, grab your ankles, … and kiss your anatomy goodbye…!!!’

Bill

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