Cutelyst 1.4.0 released, C100K ready.

February 16, 2017 by Daniel Nicoletti

Yes, it's not a typo.

Thanks to the last batch of improvements and with the great help of jemalloc, cutelyst-wsgi can do 100k request per second using a single thread/process on my i5 CPU. Without the use of jemalloc the rate was around 85k req/s.

This together with the EPoll event loop can really scale your web application, initially I thought that the option to replace the default glib (on Unix) event loop of Qt had no gain, but after increasing the connection number it handle them a lot better. With 256 connections the request per second using glib event loop get's to 65k req/s while the EPoll one stays at 90k req/s a lot closer to the number when only 32 connections is tested.

Beside these lovely numbers Matthias Fehring added a new Session backend memcached and a change to finally get translations to work on Grantlee templates. The cutelyst-wsgi got --socket-timeout, --lazy, many fixes, removal of usage of deprecated Qt API, and Unix signal handling seems to be working properly now.

Get it! https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/archive/r1.4.0.tar.gz

Hang on FreeNode #cutelyst IRC channel or Google groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cutelyst

Have fun!