Nginx feature request

[Adam Zell]

Just a quick blurb for libevent users: you may want to check out libev.

>From http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html:
  "A full-featured and high-performance (see
benchmark<http://libev.schmorp.de/bench.html>)
event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its
limitations and bugs. It is used, among others, in the GNU Virtual Private
Ethernet <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gvpe> and
rxvt-unicode<http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html>packages,
and in the Deliantra MORPG Server and Client."

On Feb 10, 2008 1:39 PM, Hendrik Hardeman <hendrik.hardeman at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  Manlio,
>
> > Interesting, but I prefer to use Python embedded in Nginx, since it is
> > more robust.
> > In future I hope to be able to add support for asynchronous Python
> > applications.
> >
>
> I agree that embedded Python would be more robust, but then I would
> probably still use standard Nginx in front with perhaps one or more
> bare-bones Nginx servers upstream with embedded Python listening on
> particular ports. With embedded Python I don't see a need for some of the
> standard modules, e.g. the rewriting module. That's something the Nginx
> server in front could take care of. I'd rather see something like Libevent (
> i.e. an asynchronous HTTP server engine) with embedded Python. The core of
> Nginx is probably similar to Libevent with its HTTP layer. Would be
> interesting to find out how Nginx core compares to Libevent with HTTP layer
> in terms of performance.
>
> A core Nginx engine with embedded Python would definitely interest me !
> That's for sure more robust than Python on top of Libevent. Already binding
> Python to the latest version of Libevent was quite tricky. Both existing
> Python modules for libevent (pyevent / libevent-python) are outdated and I
> had to use the ctypes library to bind to Libevent. Wouldn't mind replacing
> Python->ctypes->libevent by an Nginx core with embedded Python.
>
> >
> > I think that it would be interesting to have some benchmarks of mod_wsgi
>
> > against libevent based Python servers.
> >
> >
>
> I believe it would be difficult to compare a more general purpose mod_wsgi
> with a purpose-written Python server based on libevent. I myself have no
> experience with wsgi and am not in a position to compare, but you can try.
>
> >
> > The problem is that this is a very specialized need, so you should
> > implement it by yourself, of rent a coder that can work on the nginx
> > codebase for you.
> >
>
> Will probably implement it myself, unless there's someone else out there
> who would be interested to give it a try. For the time being I have myself
> no time whatsoever, at least not in the next two months.
>
> Hendrik
>
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