I would expect so, but did you mean 500k or something? "50k rps on a beefy machine" sounds like about the same as, or maybe even a bit slower than, 20k–30k on this 2011 laptop, which was how fast httpdito was last time I measured it.

went back and looked at it. a webserver written in asm for the lols is okay but my point was that you probably want a proven, battle ready web server (along the lines of nginx or apache) if running something in production. So, 50k rps on a vanilla well used/well maintened server > 50k rps on an experiment (and don't get this wrong, it's pretty impressive for what it is)

Yeah, I definitely wouldn't advise anyone to run httpdito in production. It's so lacking in observability that it doesn't even log hits, it doesn't do timeouts, and its MIME types are configured by writing in assembly language. But it shows that some surprising things are possible. And it can be handy to serve up some static pages from your laptop to your phone or whatever.

https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255 Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000.

Yeah, httpdito is similar to those, but maybe with less security holes and definitely with less dependencies.

of course it does !!