This is a supplemental document to my earlier Introducing ASP.NET Project “Helios” post. It contains extra information that might be of interest to the advanced developer but which didn’t make it into the main post. I encourage reading the original post before continuing. On performance and resource consumption When most web developers discuss performance, they’re thinking in terms of requests per second (RPS) throughput. As a rule of thumb, the lower you go in the stack, the more raw throughput you’re able to achieve. An application that opens a raw socket to listen for and process web requests will always outperform a higher-level framework like ASP.NET when it comes to “Hello World” scenarios. This...(read more)
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