ntex VS picohttpparser

Compare ntex vs picohttpparser and see what are their differences.

ntex

framework for composable networking services (by ntex-rs)

picohttpparser

tiny HTTP parser written in C (used in HTTP::Parser::XS et al.) (by h2o)
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ntex picohttpparser
8 3
1,734 1,780
14.4% 0.8%
9.0 4.2
15 days ago about 2 months ago
Rust C
Apache License 2.0 -
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ntex

Posts with mentions or reviews of ntex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-16.

picohttpparser

Posts with mentions or reviews of picohttpparser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-18.
  • Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2022
  • Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2022
    Yea, it is definitely a fake HTTP server which I acknowledge in the article [1]. However based on the size of the requests, and my observation of the number of packets per second being symmetrical at the network interface level, I didn't have a concern about doubled responses.

    Skipping the parsing of the HTTP requests definitely gives a performance boost, but for this comparison both sides got the same boost, so I didn't mind being less strict. Seastar's HTTP parser was being finicky, so I chose the easy route and just removed it from the equation.

    For reference though, in my previous post[2] libreactor was able to hit 1.2M req/s while fully parsing the HTTP requests using picohttpparser[3]. But that is still a very simple and highly optimized implementation. From what I recall when I played with disabling HTTP parsing in libreactor I got a performance boost of about 5%.

    1. https://talawah.io/blog/linux-kernel-vs-dpdk-http-performanc...

    2. https://talawah.io/blog/extreme-http-performance-tuning-one-...

    3. https://github.com/h2o/picohttpparser

  • JS faster than Rust?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 24 Feb 2021
    Just-js is not nodejs framework. It's sperate runtime and most of the http code is written using c/c++ (for example headers parsing logic is written using c and is using https://github.com/h2o/picohttpparser which is c library)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ntex and picohttpparser you can also consider the following projects:

actix-net - A collection of lower-level libraries for composable network services.

just - the only javascript runtime to hit no.1 on techempower :fire:

axum - Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper

openonload - git import of openonload.org https://gist.github.com/majek/ae188ae72e63470652c9

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

onload - OpenOnload high performance user-level network stack

epoll-server - C code for multithreaded multiplexing client socket connections across multiple threads (so its X connections per thread) uses epoll

FrameworkBenchmarks - Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

libreactor - Extendable event driven high performance C-abstractions

ntex - framework for composable networking services

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