Asmttpd: Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly (2017)

Isn't this basically a web server for Linux written in C, except with absolutely no standard library optimizations? Yes, it's assembly, but it's basically a thin script over a set of string library functions which are themselves just naive versions of what's already in libc. Most of this is just strcpy/strcat/strchr/strstr; the only reason it's not one giant stack overflow is that it doesn't actually implement most of HTTP (for instance: nothing reads Content-length, and everything works off a static…

I'll try and get this building for OSX. For the uninitiated, might I recommend my: http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2014/04/18/lets-write-... Though, this is written in yasm syntax, which is slightly different. Also, keep an eye out for a blog post on Interpreters, Compilers, and JITs I'm working on (cleaning it up and getting it peer reviewed this or next week)! update 1 Actually, would the syscall's be different between Linux and OSX? Let's find out, once this builds! hammers away update 2 Got it…

Pretty neat! It's awesome how assembly these days is reasonably high level: https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd/blob/master/http.asm It dawns on me why we couldn't have shortcuts for several patterns that show up everywhere: - mov, mov, mov then call/syscall could just be written as call(arg, arg, arg) since it's not that difficult to figure out which argument needs to go to which register if there was a defined order of arguments. - push push push push <function body> pop pop pop pop <ret> could…