Interesting.
If this is the case, I do wonder why we do not see more of this.
Were you around for the original design phase? Why was C chosen? Did you and yours collect performance metrics to see if anything meaningful was gained?
If this is the case, I do wonder why we do not see more of this.
Were you around for the original design phase? Why was C chosen? Did you and yours collect performance metrics to see if anything meaningful was gained?
The architecture involved a custom Apache httpd module to handle requests. That most likely drove the decision to use C.
The system was eventually rewritten in Python, after I had moved on.
I'm not aware of any performance metrics.