John Fremlin has released what he believes to be the worlds fastest webserver for small dynamic content, teepeedee2. It is written entirely in LISP, the world's second oldest high-level programming language. He gave a talk at the Tokyo Linux Users Group last year, with benchmarks, which he says demonstrate that 'functional programming languages can beat C.' Imagine a small alternative to Ruby on rails, supporting the development of any web application, but much faster.
26.5.09
Slashdot: 'functional programming languages can beat C.'
Spotted on Slashdot by Greg Michaelson's brother.
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John Fremlin recognized he did not make any benchmarks against more serious contenders.
Here are some benchmarks that show that John's claims were, at least, a bit daring:
http://trustleap.com/imgs/ULib_keep-alives.gif
http://trustleap.com/imgs/ULib_NO_keep-alives.gif
(John said that ULib and John's server have similar performances)
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