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A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev

22 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 5 stories, 17 comments · first 2014-10-30 · latest 2026-07-29

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  1. …on SBCL, though there probably aren't 10k concurrent connections.) In the ecosystem, there's the https://github.com/fukamachi/woo webserver which binds to libev to handle similar scale as Go was advertising about 10 years ago. And besides…
    comment by Jach · 2026-07-29 · in Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
  2. …there's libev bindings with https://github.com/fukamachi/lev that power the webserver woo: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo (Which as of 10 years ago, had comparable performance with Go in reqs/s.) (That timing makes me want to add that…
    comment by Jach · 2026-02-25 · in Steel Bank Common Lisp
  3. …green threads), we have - https://github.com/orthecreedence/wookie - an asynchronous HTTP server - https://github.com/fukamachi/woo - fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev. - an actor-based task manager for Hunchentoot:…
    comment by vindarel · 2025-10-26 · in Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks
  4. …[2] https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/revisiting-prechelt-paper-... [3] https://github.com/fukamachi/woo/blob/master/benchmark.md [4] https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas... [5] https://github.com/drym-org/
    comment by wwfn · 2023-01-10 · in Learn Lisp the Hard Way
  5. …https://graphmetrix.com and use one of the fastest webservers available (one of many libraries) woo https://github.com/fukamachi/woo
    comment by gibsonf1 · 2022-09-24 · in Algorithms and data structures implemented in many programming languages
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    Woo: A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev
    story by ducktective · 2022-09-08 · 0 comments
  7. A good example here: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26465857
    comment by gibsonf1 · 2022-08-26 · in Lisp can be “hard” real time [pdf] (2000)
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    Woo: A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev
    story by Tomte · 2022-07-12 · 0 comments
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    Woo: A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev
    story by Tomte · 2021-12-06 · 0 comments
  10. …woo beat all including the Go webserver: Scroll down just a bit to see the comparisons here: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo
    comment by gibsonf1 · 2021-10-27 · in Why Turtl switched from Common Lisp to JavaScript (2019)
  11. …[1] and great parallel futures library for async lparalel [2] that we use with great results. [1] https://github.com/fukamachi/woo (4x faster than nodejs) [2] https://lparallel.org/
    comment by gibsonf1 · 2021-10-27 · in Why Turtl switched from Common Lisp to JavaScript (2019)
  12. …Fukamachi's suite of web libraries and so many others. Woo, for example, is the fastest web server. https://github.com/fukamachi/woo (Faster then the runner up Go by quite a bit) For parallel computing, we use: https://lparallel.org/ Its…
    comment by gibsonf1 · 2021-10-01 · in Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone encoding problem
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    Woo – A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev
    story by simonpure · 2020-04-04 · 0 comments
  14. …fast math library including quaternion support, etc. [1] https://github.com/fukamachi/caveman [2] https://github.com/fukamachi/woo [3] https://github.com/fukamachi/dexador [4] https://github.com/fukamachi/websocket-driver [5]…
    comment by gibsonf1 · 2020-04-04 · in Valtan: Common Lisp to JavaScript Compiler
  15. …subset of tools for every project, which adds a fair bit of overhead. https://roswell.github.io/ https://github.com/fukamachi/woo https://github.com/fukamachi/ningle p.s. Not the author, but a big fan.
    comment by soiheard · 2019-06-22 · in The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode
  16. Why the "Fast" section (or graphs on https://github.com/fukamachi/woo ) don't contain any JVM based solutions? Anyone has idea how do they compare?
    comment by ktosobcy · 2018-05-10 · in Common Lisp homepage
  17. You're entirely correct, I was originally going to have an appendix on how to install woo ( https://github.com/fukamachi/woo ) but decided to get the tutorial done rather than prolong the time until I release it. I'll probably add it at a…
    comment by unimpressive · 2015-12-05 · in How to Set Up a Common Lisp Web Environment
  18. > Woo is many times faster than Hunchentoot. "Hello World" on the local machine... https://github.com/fukamachi/woo/blob/master/benchmark.md is that what you mean by 'faster'? Personally I'd prefer a more representative benchmark, which…
    comment by lispm · 2015-08-22 · in Lisp for the Web, Part III
  19. …development. Sure, for a five minute demo, Hunchentoot is fine. But why teach bad practices? [0]: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo [1]: https://github.com/eudoxia0/clack-errors
    comment by eudox · 2015-08-22 · in Lisp for the Web, Part III
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    Woo: Fast HTTP Server in Common Lisp
    story by momo-reina · 2014-12-27 · 40 comments
  21. When he first posted it, it did, it looks like recent changes have brought that down: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo/commit/be4a0db688af05ee204e...
    comment by eudox · 2014-10-30 · in A fast HTTP request/response parser for Common Lisp
  22. …written Clack[2], which is Common Lisp's Rack/WSGI. [0]: https://github.com/fukamachi/quri [1]: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo [2]: https://github.com/fukamachi/clack
    comment by eudox · 2014-10-30 · in A fast HTTP request/response parser for Common Lisp