Well yeah obviously, but the requirement was to make a networked cache server. Obviously if they'd cache on the machine that was generating the data it would be

Well yeah obviously, but the requirement was to make a networked cache server. Obviously if they'd cache on the machine that was generating the data it would be faster, regardless of language. "is that the designers probably didn't envision someone using the language like this" They didn't envisage that the HTTP server would be used to, you know, serve HTTP requests?