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		inimino on Feb 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context ... Rocket is slow because of its design, not because it is insufficiently asynchronous.

Freaky on Feb 12, 2021 [–]

It's beaten by half a dozen sync Ruby implementations, which should be a pretty good hint that something else is going on.

Lack of HTTP keep-alive is probably the most obvious thing holding it back.

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