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
