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RESP can transfer raw binaries, the only overhead is a message length. In the TFA they are talking about using MessagePack for the payloads, so it is a binary p

• tayo42 5y ago
  http transfers binary, what does that even mean? the only thing the message pack thing is used for is encoding the value in the requests. but all of that is irrelevant because thats not what i was talking about in the first place. the test is poorly done. An average latency of 17ms to handle a simple request with the resp protocol is a red flag it self that something is wrong. Seconds to have an http response returned is a problem. All this article is showing is elixir and the libraries used are incredibly slow. Calling HTTP slow, based off the tests done in this article is just wrong, because the whole test is slow and not testing the right thing. Micro bench marking of the parsing functions would be the right thing to do here. really someone should profile the server and see what is taking seconds to respond. it wont be the parsing related functions parsing http really isnt that big of a deal. its a simple protocol, the action on line one, headers split by : and the body. resp has a simmilar amount of work too, uses multiple lines