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Wade Tregaskis May 16, 2024

Swift sucks at web serving… or does it?

A few weeks ago, Axel Roest published a simple web server comparison, that turned out to not be doing what it was thought to be doing. Figuring that out was a very interesting discussion that warrants a retrospective, to look at which parts were particularly helpful and which not so much.

Tangentially, I want to highlight that Axel's comparison is notable because he is interested in efficiency, not mere brute performance. The two are usually correlated but not always the same. He correctly [...]

https://wadetregaskis.com/swift-sucks-at-web-serving-or-does-it/

Swift sucks at web serving… or does it? – Wade Tregaskis

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Sven A. Schmidt May 16, 2024

@everything Nice write-up of this epic thread!

It would be nice to see the complete updated results somewhere for reference, especially since you’ve got the outdated ones so prominently in the introduction.

Could make for a nice side by side showing the difference!

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Wade

@finestructure @everything Yep, Axel hasn’t yet done a [hopefully] final re-run to get fully corrected results. Though I don’t expect they’ll change much from his second post (it should just fix the success rate). I believe he’s intending to do a third post, for those revised results. I’ll update mine to link to it, when he does.