On Sunday 8 February 2004, colm at stdlib.net (Colm MacCarthaigh) wrote:
>> OK - I did wonder about. I thought perhaps people had just got bored
>> with the "our dick is bigger than IIS' dick" thing.
>>Well IIS had in-kernel zero-copy going on before Linux could ever offer
>it, have to give them that ;)
That I knew, hence the comment, and the existence of khttpd, which was
to level the playing field web server benchmark wise. I guess, as you
(or somebody else) mentioned earlier, the existence of sendfile now
gives any webserver the zero-copy advantage, hence the need for khttpd
going.
Niall
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