Re:Show HN: Rust HTTP library modeled after Go but 2-3x faster
by apatheticonion on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:15AM
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Hi thanks! My focus was developer ergonomics so it's rewarding to hear some of that has translated across.
The benchmark claim is based on a naive, simple "hello world" GET req/response, comparing the Go stdlib vs the equivalent handler using uhttp. I used oha to measure.
Often a meaningless benchmark, but it does serve to measure the overhead from the http library itself. Happy to hear suggestions on the benchmark approach as I don't want to be misleading
The benchmark claim is based on a naive, simple "hello world" GET req/response, comparing the Go stdlib vs the equivalent handler using uhttp. I used oha to measure.
https://github.com/alshdavid/uhttp/blob/main/benchmarks/go/s...
vs
https://github.com/alshdavid/uhttp/blob/main/examples/basic/...
Output: https://github.com/alshdavid/uhttp/blob/main/crates/uhttp/RE...
Often a meaningless benchmark, but it does serve to measure the overhead from the http library itself. Happy to hear suggestions on the benchmark approach as I don't want to be misleading