[tlug] [RFC] Outline of the fast HTTP talk

[John Fremlin <john@example.com>]

Next meeting I'll be giving a presentation about a web application
platform I built, which is quite fast at serving dynamic webpages. (The
most unusual thing about it is that it is written entirely in Common
Lisp, but I promise not to go into that too much.)

Very boldly, I propose to do a couple of live demos of this prerelease,
rapidly changing piece of untested software.

Here's my talk outline so far

  Initial demo of a simple webapp

  Benchmark comparisons to Mongrel/PHP, lighttpd

  General background on high performance HTTP under Linux: 
          - tux2 by Ingo Molnar 
          - processes, threads, sendfile, epoll

  A few details of my implementation
          - How is the HTML is generated
          - System calls I use
          - The fast regular expression library I wrote for it: http://common-lisp.net/projects/cl-irregsexp/

  Final demo

Any suggestions of other webapplication frameworks I should compare it
with or things you would like me to go into more or less detail on, or
just general advice would be much appreciated.