Keep in mind that the HTTP server in the benchmarks actually uses the httptools parser, which is a full-blown HTTP parser. A lot of heavy-lifting is done by the

Keep in mind that the HTTP server in the benchmarks actually uses the httptools parser, which is a full-blown HTTP parser. A lot of heavy-lifting is done by the parser. I plan to add a complete HTTP protocol implementation to httptools, but honestly, I don't expect it to be more than 20% slower.