• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Does a file lookup really take that long? Id say the trick was to have just plain old html with no bloat and you’re golden.

    • agilob@programming.dev
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      Blog content was stored in memory and it was served with zero-copy to the socket, so yea, it’s way faster. It was before times of php-fpm and opcache that we’re using now. Back then things were deployed and communicated using tcp sockets (tcp to rails, django or php) or reading from a disk, when the best HDDs were 5600rpm, but rare to find on shared hosting.

      • THE_STORM_BLADE@lemmy.world
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        Couldn’t the html be loaded into memory at the beginning of the program and then served whenever? I understand the reading from disk will be slow, but that only happens once in the beginning.