Porting NymphCast to the Haiku operating system

Over the past couple of days I have ported the NymphCast network streaming project [1] to Haiku, which was fairly straightforward due to its POSIX-compatibility. In this article I’ll describe my experiences with porting to what is effectively BeOS’ spiritual ... more

Cerflet: like Servlets, but with more C++

A few months ago I wrote about the research I had been doing on multiple ways to write server-based web applications, using Java Servlets, FastCGI/C++ and Qt/C++. While this showed that C++-based applications tend to be faster than Java-based ones, it ... more

First look at servlet and FastCGI performance

As a primarily C++ developer who has also done a lot of web-related development (PHP, JSP, Java Servlets, etc.), one of the nagging questions I have had for years was the possible performance gain by moving away from interpreted languages towards native ... more

A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly

Earlier this year the WebAssembly [1][2] project was announced, describing itself as “a new, portable, size- and load-time-efficient format suitable for compilation to the web”. It’s a W3C community group project, headed by representatives of all major ... more