Performance Benchmark

[VinnyVicious]

how does glaze compare with other C++ server frameworks, like uWebSockets or Boost.Beast? Is it faster than Rust alternatives like axum or actix?

[stephenberry]

Thanks for your question and it will motivate me to build benchmarks. Currently the HTTP/websocket code has been focused on API development and correctness more than raw performance right now, since it is still new. But, it is continuing to be optimized. I'll keep this issue alive until proper benchmarks are available.

[stephenberry]

I added performance benchmarks between Glaze and Boost.BEAST for HTTP.

Requests per second:

Benchmark	Glaze	Beast	Delta
Plaintext (keep-alive)	39,417	37,400	Glaze +5%
JSON Small (keep-alive)	46,842	37,762	Glaze +24%
JSON Single User	45,175	37,986	Glaze +19%
JSON 100 Users	43,260	35,709	Glaze +21%
JSON 10K Users (~960KB)	7,725	7,627	Glaze +1%
POST Echo JSON	46,682	38,473	Glaze +21%
Connection-per-Request	12,955	14,316	Beast +10%
Concurrent (10 threads)	90,806	79,243	Glaze +15%
Concurrent JSON 100	89,010	77,208	Glaze +15%

[stephenberry]

I optimized the HTTP code more in #2384. I didn't mean to close this issue, as I still intend to compare with uWebSockets and will probably look at some Rust alternatives as well.

[VinnyVicious]

This is awesome! Thank you.