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Xudong-Huang
may_minihttp
Rust2022–2025
Xudong-Huang / may_minihttp

may_minihttp

mini http implemented on top of may

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
950GitHub stars
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mini http implemented on top of may

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Observed mentions: 2022-11-24 16:59:31 UTC to 2025-12-03 09:30:21 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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After investigating may_minihttp[0], which appears, for now, to be the fastest web framework on TechEmpower benchmarks[1], I saw the data below. [0]: https://github.com/Xudong-Huang/may_minihttp [1]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23 == tokio echo server run the server by default with 2 threads in another terminal $ cd tokio-core $ cargo run --example=echo-threads --release $ target/release/examples/echo_client -t 2 -c 100 -l 100 -a 127.0.0.1:8080 ==================Benchmarking: 127.0.0.1:8080================== 100 clients, running 100 bytes, 10 sec. Speed: 315698 request/sec, 315698 response/sec, 30829 kb/sec Requests: 3156989 Responses: 3156989 target/release/examples/echo_client -t 2 -c 100 -l 100 -a 127.0.0.1:8080 1.89s user 13.46s system 152% cpu 10.035 total may echo ser
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ver run the server by default with 2 threads in another terminal $ cd may $ cargo run --example=echo --release -- -p 8000 -t 2 $ target/release/examples/echo_client -t 2 -c 100 -l 100 -a 127.0.0.1:8000 ==================Benchmarking: 127.0.0.1:8000================== 100 clients, running 100 bytes, 10 sec. Speed: 419094 request/sec, 419094 response/sec, 40927 kb/sec Requests: 4190944 Responses: 4190944 target/release/examples/echo_client -t 2 -c 100 -l 100 -a 127.0.0.1:8000 2.60s user 16.96s system 195% cpu 10.029 total
In Tokio (stackless coroutines) vs. May (stackful coroutines) in Rust
Performance and efficiency aren’t the same thing. Django does a lot of things other frameworks ranked here don’t do. Such framework rankings are also utterly irrelevant when you want something widely used enough to easily find contributors and integrations. That restricts you quite a bit more than “any so called framework that just handles http”. Did you even look at the top performers on that page? This is number 2: https://github.com/Xudong-Huang/may_minihttp
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