[Stackless] Beta testing a Stackless-backed web application server

Arnar Birgisson arnarbi at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 15:25:09 CEST 2008


Hello Minor,

This sounds very impressive. I'd sure be interested in having a look,
although I can't dedicate much time to extensive testing/hacking at
the moment.

Arnar

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 23:13, Minor Gordon <Minor.Gordon at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking for beta testers, preferably hackers, for a highly
> concurrent, multithreaded web server I've developed in C++ that uses
> Stackless/greenlets with CPython as a back end for web applications. The
> key difference between my server and others in pure Python is that
> CPU-intensive (compression, serialization) and blocking (disk reads,
> writes) calls are offloaded ("synchronously", using Stackless channels
> to send and receive messages) from the Python interpreter to
> mulitithreaded worker thread pools. All network I/O and HTTP parsing is
> done in C++, as well, with non-blocking and async OS primitives (IOCP,
> epoll, etc.) and a no-copy hand-written parser.
>
> The server is very fast -- on an in-memory SPECweb99-like HTTP file
> workload it can compete with lighttpd and nginx until the single Python
> thread becomes CPU bound. It can leave Twisted, Medusa, or any other
> pure Python server in the dust, as well as Apache, of course.
>
> Some other features of the Python-side API:
> - the web app interface is WSGI only, with a setup interface identical
> to wsgiref's make_server
> - the async disk I/O interface is encapsulated in a file-like object
> - applications can send and receive IDL-generated RPCs, e.g. result =
> call( ... params ..., target="jsonrpc://somehost/JSONRPC" ) using
> JSON-RPC or Sun RPC
> - there is also an experimental DB API 2.0 interface that communicates
> via C++ with a pool of C connections (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite are
> supported)
>
> If you are interested in beta testing and/or hacking and don't mind
> using the source as documentation, please get in touch. The code is
> GPL-licensed.
>
> Cheers,
> Minor
>
> P.S. I am also very interested in using generated PyPy VMs as
> thread-safe web app back ends, if any of the PyPy guys are reading this.
>
>
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