This is an interesting project - kudos for executing it. I have to admit that when I was starting out in this field, I too fantasised about, "Would this software be faster, smaller and better in assembly?". Ofcourse, assembly programming made some sense in embedded electronics, which can be very resource constrained and even specialised for one particular application. Thinking from that aspect, perhaps you should consider making this a specialised program that runs on something like a Raspberry Pi - running such a web server directly on it, without an OS (or a very minimal OS), would make for a real cool and interesting project.
senfiaj•9m ago
IMHO, for servers IO (FS/DB, network, etc) is usually a greater bottleneck. Microoptimizations make sense only for CPU bound problems.
jvanderbot•6m ago
I am pained to think of TLS/HTTPS implemented as a hobby project in ASM, but would be impressed to see it.
LegionMammal978•1m ago
I did actually make an attempt at that once for BGGP5 [0]. (That is, making a minimal, horribly insecure 'client' implementing just enough behavior to get a response from a server.) But I got demoralized by how much space the big binary blobs for the crypto algorithms took up.
thisislife2•1h ago
senfiaj•9m ago
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LegionMammal978•1m ago
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