Is there any advantage to using spawn tasks instead of asynchronous processing of http requests? Is it faster to process the requests? My idea was to use the same approach that golang uses with goroutines. Many Nim libraries does not have asynchronous support.
Code from asynchttpserver:
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# https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/version-1-4/lib/pure/asynchttpserver.nim#L342
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proc serve*(server: AsyncHttpServer, port: Port,
callback: proc (request: Request): Future[void] {.closure, gcsafe.},
address = "";
assumedDescriptorsPerRequest = -1) {.async.} =
listen server, port, address
while true:
if shouldAcceptRequest(server, assumedDescriptorsPerRequest):
var (address, client) = await server.socket.acceptAddr()
asyncCheck processClient(server, client, address, callback)
else:
poll()
proc serve*(server: HttpServer, port: Port,
callback: proc (request: Request) {.closure, gcsafe.},
address = "") =
listen server, port, address
while true:
var client: Socket
var address = ""
server.socket.acceptAddr(client, address)
spawn processClient(server client, address, callback) # <=======