Iodine
pitchfork
Iodine | pitchfork | |
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1 | 13 | |
893 | 653 | |
- | 2.5% | |
4.3 | 8.5 | |
5 days ago | 22 days ago | |
C | Ruby | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Iodine
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Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
Most of the speed I believe is from using the server iodine https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine which is a wrapper around facil.io https://facil.io that is built using C.
pitchfork
- Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
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Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension
Depends what you are after and what you are constrained by.
Some people might be struggling with memory usage and may not see it as worth it, but for others who may have some extra RAM sitting around, it might come as a free perf increase.
As for memory usage, proper use of CoW can reduce it dramatically: https://github.com/Shopify/pitchfork/blob/master/benchmark/R...
- Pitchfork: Rack HTTP server for shared-nothing architecture
- Shopify makes new web server Pitchfork based on Unicorn that forks a warmed up Ruby VM to service requests
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a new web server GitHub - Shopify/pitchfork
Reforking yes, all explained here
What are some alternatives?
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
Phusion Passenger - A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js
falcon - A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and TLS.
distribution - Probability distributions for Ruby.
Unicorn - Unofficial Unicorn Mirror.
WASI - WebAssembly System Interface
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
grpc_kit - A kit for creating gRPC server/client in Ruby.
Goliath - Goliath is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework
Flask - The Python micro framework for building web applications.