Are events fast?

Gabriel Kerneis (1) , Juliusz Chroboczek (1)

1 PPS - Preuves, Programmes et Systèmes

We compare a set of web servers on a simple synthetic workload. We show that, on this particular benchmark, event-driven code is as fast or faster than the fastest implementations using thread libraries.

Domaines: Langage de programmation [cs.PL]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Performance et fiabilité [cs.PF]

Gabriel Kerneis, Juliusz Chroboczek. Are events fast?. 2009. ⟨hal-00434374⟩