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• C - fast servers with per CPU thread

Describes a scheme where one thread accepts new connections, and passes the new connection descriptor to a cpu-pinned worker thread (one such worker per CPU). The cpu thread uses epoll or kqueue to listen on data available / write ready events on the sockets it manages and call a protocol fine-state-machine when data is available or the socket is available for write.

The FSM should be simple enough that no more threads are necessary.

• C - Lwan HTTP server

An HTTP server implementing the above pattern. Uses co-routines instead of per-thread state machines.

• TLS SSL protocol