For those interested in web development, GWAN is a VERY fast web server (Linux only) which allow development of dynamic pages in C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, and D (since january this year) !

see http://gwan.ch/

NB: the perf benchmark on this site seems incredible, but try yourself ...
I did it and I'm convinced.

D.annunce newsgroup fits better :)

However I can't find any example/sdk for D pages...
Neither in tarball I see in download section.

On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 10:17:27 UTC, P. Lefevre wrote:
> For those interested in web development, GWAN is a VERY fast web server (Linux only) which allow development of dynamic pages in C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, and D (since january this year) !
>
> see http://gwan.ch/
>
> NB: the perf benchmark on this site seems incredible, but try yourself ...
> I did it and I'm convinced.

There is an example at "0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0/csp/hello.d_" in the tarball. To use it, install GDC and rename "hello.d_" to "hello.d".

You may have difficulties depending on the version of GDC you use. I do not recall which version is supported. I will find out and make another reply.

On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 10:42:36 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> D.annunce newsgroup fits better :)
>
> However I can't find any example/sdk for D pages...
> Neither in tarball I see in download section.

It's just an import of two extern(C) functions.
I read:

extern (C) // could anyone translate the whole gwan.h file?
{
   void *get_reply(char[][]);
   char *xbuf_ncat(void *, char *, uint);
}

And then:

xbuf_ncat(get_reply(argv), "Hello World (D)", "Hello World (C)".sizeof - 1);

Maybe they should give a better support for D language...


On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 11:08:06 UTC, Eric R. Schulz (ers35) wrote:
> There is an example at "0.0.0.0_8080/#0.0.0.0/csp/hello.d_" in the tarball. To use it, install GDC and rename "hello.d_" to "hello.d".
>
> You may have difficulties depending on the version of GDC you use. I do not recall which version is supported. I will find out and make another reply.
>
> On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 10:42:36 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> D.annunce newsgroup fits better :)
>>
>> However I can't find any example/sdk for D pages...
>> Neither in tarball I see in download section.

G-WAN exports a C API and D supports calling C functions.

In what way could G-WAN better support D?

Perhaps reading the G-WAN manual would help to explain: http://gwan.ch/archives/gwan_linux.pdf

> Maybe they should give a better support for D language...

Using C plain api it's not a good way to use D power IMHO :)

xbuf_ncat(get_reply(argv), "Hello World (D)", "Hello World (C)".sizeof - 1);

Probably this example doesn't work properly.
On my machine writeln("1234".sizeof);  gives "16" because of UTF-8.
So "1234".sizeof - 1 is 15.

AFAIK D strings are not null-terminated (are they?) and i guess that line of code won't work.

Encapsulate code with classes/template/etc would be a good idea.

On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 13:29:59 UTC, Eric R. Schulz (ers35) wrote:
> G-WAN exports a C API and D supports calling C functions.
>
> In what way could G-WAN better support D?
>
> Perhaps reading the G-WAN manual would help to explain: http://gwan.ch/archives/gwan_linux.pdf
>
>> Maybe they should give a better support for D language...

True. I will investigate writing a D wrapper for the C API.

> Using C plain api it's not a good way to use D power IMHO :)
> Encapsulate code with classes/template/etc would be a good idea.

I don't know much about web servers, but is it really the only web
server "able to scale on multi-core CPUs"??  I've played around with
Yesod/Warp and I was under the impression that it's one of the
fastest.  http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/03/preliminary-warp-cross-language-benchmarks

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:17 AM, P. Lefevre <pascal.lefevre@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> For those interested in web development, GWAN is a VERY fast web server
> (Linux only) which allow development of dynamic pages in C, C++,
> Objective-C, Objective-C++, and D (since january this year) !
>
> see http://gwan.ch/
>
> NB: the perf benchmark on this site seems incredible, but try yourself ... I did it and I'm convinced.
>

See [1] for details on how to run your own benchmark.

It would be interesting to compare Warp and G-WAN using both of their provided benchmark tests.

[1]http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/525/nginx1.0.6-vs-lighttpd1.4.29-vs-g-wan2.9.30-rpscpuram

On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 15:09:58 UTC, Caligo wrote:
> I don't know much about web servers, but is it really the only web
> server "able to scale on multi-core CPUs"??  I've played around with
> Yesod/Warp and I was under the impression that it's one of the
> fastest.  http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/03/preliminary-warp-cross-language-benchmarks

On 06/25/2012 03:42 PM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> Using C plain api it's not a good way to use D power IMHO :)
>
> xbuf_ncat(get_reply(argv), "Hello World (D)", "Hello World (C)".sizeof -
> 1);
>
> Probably this example doesn't work properly.
> On my machine writeln("1234".sizeof); gives "16" because of UTF-8.

Actually it gives 16 because sizeof gives the size of
immutable(char)[]. length would give the correct length in this case.

> So "1234".sizeof - 1 is 15.
>
> AFAIK D strings are not null-terminated (are they?)

String literals are, but that does not affect their length.

> and i guess that line of code won't work.
>