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World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the more-tools-in-the-tool-belt dept.

Cougem writes "John Fremlin has released what he believes to be the worlds fastest webserver for small dynamic content, teepeedee2. It is written entirely in LISP, the world's second oldest high-level programming language. He gave a talk at the Tokyo Linux Users Group last year, with benchmarks, which he says demonstrate that 'functional programming languages can beat C.' Imagine a small alternative to Ruby on rails, supporting the development of any web application, but much faster."

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  1. Speed is not all by moon3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In terms of readability and maintenance it might be a nightmare (looking at the LISP code).

    The benchmark seams biased anyway, you can't beat C/C++, really, and the LISP language itself is written in C.