[Haskell-cafe] code review? store server, 220loc.

[Don Stewart]

newsham:
> Anyone interested in critiquing some code?  I'm looking for ideas
> for making it faster and/or simpler:
> 
>    http://www.thenewsh.com/%7Enewsham/store/Server5.hs
> 
> This is an exercise to see how well a server in Haskell would perform.
> My goals are roughly:
>     - retargetability to other server types (ie. easy to
>       replace request and response structures and business logic).
>     - readability.
>     - performance.
> 
> My measurements show that a simple dummy server (accept, forkio,
> recv byte) handles roughly 7500 requests/connects per second,
> the server/client that do real messages do about 4500 req and
> connections per second.  If all requests are on the same connection
> one after another it does about 13500 requests/second.  For
> comparisons, a C ping-pong server does about 3600/second if
> it has to fork for each new connection/request, and about 35000/sec
> if its all on the same connection.  So it seems at least competitive
> with a forking C server.  I havent tested threaded C servers.
> 

    packBS :: String -> B.ByteString
    packBS = B.pack . map (toEnum.fromEnum)

    -- | Convert a bytestring to a string.
    unpackBS :: B.ByteString -> String
    unpackBS = map (toEnum.fromEnum) . B.unpack


are Data.ByteString.Char8.pack/unpack.

What optimisation and runtime flags did you use (-threaded or not?)