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| 10 | | <p>Cherokee is fast! Seriously. <strong>Cherokee is really really fast</strong>. Every release has proven faster than the previous one, 0.6 being 25% faster than 0.5 for example. One of the intended objectives is being able to turn the server's hard drive into the effective bottleneck of the system. That is <strong>a lot</strong>. With each release we get closer to our goal. Admittedly, a very tough goal to reach. After that there's really not much left to do to improve a High Performance web server such as Cherokee.</p> |
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| 11 | | <p>To show the project's progression towards the ultimate goal, whenever a benchmark is performed it will be published right here. Older releases had impressive but not very thorough benchmarks. Whenever it is possible the conditions of the benchmark will be provided so that anyone can replicate the results. That is, after all, an essential basis of the Scientific method.</p> |
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| | 9 | <p> |
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| | 10 | <img src="images/pixel.png" align="right" hspace="55" vspace="80"/> |
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| | 11 | <strong>Cherokee is really really fast</strong>. |
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| | 12 | The speed at which any web server can serve requests for content is |
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| | 13 | both directly tied to and limited by the I/O speed of underlying |
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| | 14 | hardware and operating system. In this regard, a web server's |
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| | 15 | performance is measured by the latency incurred after an I/O request to |
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| | 16 | the underlying system has completed. |
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| | 17 | </p> |
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| | 18 | <p> |
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| | 19 | The primary objective of the Cherokee project is to reduce to zero the |
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| | 20 | latency incurred between the time a dynamic or static system I/O request |
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| | 21 | has completed and the time the resulting content is served to the |
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| | 22 | requesting client. Admittedly, a very tough goal to reach. |
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| | 23 | </p> |
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| | 24 | </div> |
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| | 25 | <div class="message_right"> |
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| | 26 | <p> |
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| | 27 | <img src="images/pixel.png" align="left" hspace="50" vspace="80"/> |
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| | 28 | In fact, it might be impossible. But achieving that which was once seen as impossible |
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| | 29 | is what drives innovation. And it's innovation that drives the ongoing |
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| | 30 | development of the Cherokee project, bringing us closer to the impossible |
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| | 31 | with each new release. |
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| | 32 | </p> |
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| | 33 | <p> |
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| | 34 | To show the project's progression towards the ultimate goal, whenever a benchmark |
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| | 35 | is performed it will be published right here. Older releases had impressive but not very |
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| | 36 | thorough benchmarks. Whenever it is possible the conditions of the benchmark will be provided |
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| | 37 | so that anyone can replicate the results. That is, after all, an essential basis of the Scientific method. |
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| | 38 | </p> |
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