Perform some benchmarks/optimizations

[rawleyfowler]

I think overall, Humming-Bird is pretty fast. But I'm sure it can perform better. I think it would be a good idea to get a performance comparison between Humming-Bird and other web-frameworks (not necessarily just Raku frameworks), then see where we can improve performance from there.

[rawleyfowler]

#44 Is a start

[rawleyfowler]

@masukomi Here are the results vs Sinatra, thought you might be interested being a Ruby guy :)

These tests are attempting to fire 2000 requests to the server in ~1 second, this is the average of 50 runs.

Note: These are both with a single handler on / returning the static HTML string <h1>Hello World!</h1>.

Sinatra with Puma (Ruby 3.0.5p211) request/sec test

RESULT
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Success Count: 1082 (54%)
Failed Count: 918 (46%)

Humming-Bird (Rakudo 2022.12, MoarVM) request/sec test

RESULT
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Success Count: 1446 (72%)
Failed Count: 554 (28%)

Note, there is a small problem on the Humming-Bird side that still needs to be addressed, sometimes our memory usage is quite a bit higher than to be expected when hit with large volumes of requests. I suspect this is due to how we handle long-polling sockets.

[rawleyfowler]

We're still about 10x slower than something like Express but, I think we've got a good foundation!

[rawleyfowler]

Closing this as complete for now. May come back to it.