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stock_toaster · on April 22, 2014

  > (that explains why node.js is a bit faster than Go for handling HTTP requests at the moment)

Pretty sure node's http parsing is handled by http-parser[1], which is written in C (originally pulled from nginx as I recall).

Go's http parser is written in Go.

[1]: https://github.com/joyent/http-parser

zimbatm · on April 22, 2014

If I remember correctly the initial versions of node had the ragel-based http parser from mongrel but then ryan rewrote it. http-parser is hand-written.

stock_toaster · on April 22, 2014

maybe not entirely hand written? source[1]

[1]: https://github.com/joyent/http-parser/blob/master/LICENSE-MI...

nickpresta · on April 22, 2014

    > (that explains why node.js is a bit faster than Go for handling HTTP requests at the moment)

I'm not sure that is true any more:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...

At any rate, "handling HTTP requests" can't possibly be your bottleneck, given network communication, serialization, etc.