G-WAN World's fastest web server for C scripts

UPDATE: The forum of the web site has been closed  few months ago. There is not any active community and actually there are very few people supporting the idea that G-WAN is very fast.

After my previous post on CGI, I continued to search for a FastCGI example written in C, for the Mac and nginx. There is a post about it, but it was not working. However I found an awesome project, G-WAN, a web server built in ANSI C, super fast, at least from the charts reported on the web site. Another fantastic feature that G-WAN has, is the possibility to write C scripts, yes scripts! You put your scripts in a directory and when the script is called from the browser it is compiled and served. G-WAN can serve hundreds of thousands of connections per second but the response time is much better than any other language and application server.

This is a Hello World! example, the code does not has to be compiled:

// ============================================================================
// C servlet sample for the G-WAN Web Application Server (http://trustleap.ch/)
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// hello.c: just used with Lighty's Weighttp to benchmark a minimalist servlet
// ============================================================================
// imported functions:
//   get_reply(): get a pointer on the 'reply' dynamic buffer from the server
//    xbuf_cat(): like strcat(), but it works in the specified dynamic buffer
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include "gwan.h" // G-WAN exported functions

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   xbuf_cat(get_reply(argv), "Hello World!");
   
   return 200; // return an HTTP code (200:'OK')
}
// ============================================================================
// End of Source Code
// ============================================================================

Now start the server:

sudo ./gwan

and enjoy: http://localhost:8080/csp?hello1.c

I wonder if, in a near future, we will have a super fast REST backend with a thick Javascript interface made with Backbone.js and JQuery.