====== BITMAUL HTTP dissector benchmark ======

We were just looking at numbers from the [[https://github.com/Geal/parser_benchmarks/tree/master/http|NOM HTTP Parser benchmark]]  and thought it would be a good idea to put together a similar one for a BITMAUL based parser. I had a hunch that LuaJIT would perform quite competitively

The result is the [[https://github.com/trisulnsm/bitmaul/tree/master/examples/http|BITMAUL HTTP Parser Benchmark]]. 

The results : **5.4 Gbps parsing speed on an old Core i3** 


===== What was Measured =====

We did the following 

  - Read the test HTTP header from a text file (header.txt)
  - Save that header in a string S
  - Construct a SweepBuf over the string
  - Parse the request line into verb, uri, version
  - Parse every single field into a LUA table with { field-name , field-value }
  - Go to 3 , repeat 10Million times

 

The sample code and more details are available on -  [[https://github.com/trisulnsm/bitmaul/tree/master/examples/http|BITMAUL HTTP Parser Benchmark]].