Add may-minihttp — Rust stackful coroutines engine#236
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Add may-minihttp — Rust stackful coroutines engine#236BennyFranciscus wants to merge 2 commits intoMDA2AV:mainfrom
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may-minihttp is a mini HTTP server built on the May coroutine library, which uses stackful coroutines for cooperative scheduling. It follows a coroutine-per-connection model similar to goroutines but in Rust. Implemented as an engine with baseline, pipelined, and limited-conn test profiles. Uses mimalloc allocator and thin LTO for performance. Repo: https://github.com/Xudong-Huang/may_minihttp
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may_minihttp's BodyReader only supports Content-Length bodies. Chunked Transfer-Encoding requests crash the connection parser since the chunk framing corrupts subsequent request parsing. Rewritten to use may TCP directly with httparse for header parsing and manual chunked TE decoding. This fixes the CI validate failure on the chunked POST baseline test.
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What
Adds may-minihttp as a new engine entry. may-minihttp is a mini HTTP server built on the May coroutine library — stackful coroutines in Rust with a coroutine-per-connection model.
This is a really interesting approach — instead of async/await (like tokio/hyper), May uses stackful coroutines similar to goroutines. Each connection gets its own coroutine with cooperative scheduling. The API stays synchronous and blocking-style, but underneath it's all non-blocking I/O with work-stealing. Pretty cool design.
Already does well on TechEmpower benchmarks, curious to see how it stacks up in HttpArena against hyper, actix, etc.
Type
Engine — raw HTTP server with no routing, JSON, compression, or DB abstractions.
Test Profiles
baseline— GET (query param sum) + POST (body parsing)pipelined— returnsoklimited-conn— same endpoints, short-lived connectionsImplementation Details
may_minihttp0.1.11 onmay0.3 (stackful coroutines)num_cpusworkers viamay::config().set_workers()-C target-cpu=native, thin LTO, single codegen unitValidation
Docker build: ✅
All endpoints tested locally:
GET /baseline11?a=10&b=20&c=30→60✅POST /baseline11?a=5&b=10body=100→115✅GET /pipeline→ok✅cc @Xudong-Huang — would love your feedback! The stackful coroutine approach is a really unique take on high-concurrency HTTP serving.