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Justine Tunney
f3e28aa192 Make SSL handshakes much faster
This change boosts SSL handshake performance from 2,627 to ~10,000 per
second which is the same level of performance as NGINX at establishing
secure connections. That's impressive if we consider that redbean is a
forking frontend application server. This was accomplished by:

  1. Enabling either SSL session caching or SSL tickets. We choose to
     use tickets since they reduce network round trips too and that's
     a more important metric than wrk'ing localhost.

  2. Fixing mbedtls_mpi_sub_abs() which is the most frequently called
     function. It's called about 12,000 times during an SSL handshake
     since it's the basis of most arithmetic operations like addition
     and for some strange reason it was designed to make two needless
     copies in addition to calling malloc and free. That's now fixed.

  3. Improving TLS output buffering during the SSL handshake only, so
     that only a single is write and read system call is needed until
     blocking on the ping pong.

redbean will now do a better job wiping sensitive memory from a child
process as soon as it's not needed. The nice thing about fork is it's
much faster than reverse proxying so the goal is to use the different
address spaces along with setuid() to minimize the risk that a server
key will be compromised in the event that application code is hacked.
2021-07-11 23:17:47 -07:00
Justine Tunney
d932948fb4 Remove more nonstandard stuff from cosmopolitan.h
Fixes #61
2021-03-01 00:18:23 -08:00
Justine Tunney
37a4c70c36 Change license 2020-12-27 17:18:44 -08:00
Justine Tunney
416fd86676 Make improvements
- Emulator can now test the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε bootloader

- Whipped up a webserver named redbean. It services 150k requests per
  second on a single core. Bundling assets inside zip enables extremely
  fast serving for two reasons. The first is that zip central directory
  lookups go faster than stat() system calls. The second is that both
  zip and gzip content-encoding use DEFLATE, therefore, compressed
  responses can be served via the sendfile() system call which does an
  in-kernel copy directly from the zip executable structure. Also note
  that red bean zip executables can be deployed easily to all platforms,
  since these native executables work on Linux, Mac, BSD, and Windows.

- Address sanitizer now works very well
2020-09-14 00:02:34 -07:00