Gin: Add support for fasthttp or fasthttprouter

Created on 16 Dec 2015 · 31Comments · Source: gin-gonic/gin

Fasthttp provides an http server optimized for high performance. It doesn't allocate memory in hot paths - the same approach is used by httprouter.

With fasthttp gin may become even faster. See also fasthttprouter, httprouter fork based on fasthttp.

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valyala

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I personally don't want to support it. It got some downsides like workarounds, no http2... Just to mention 2 reasons.

tboerger on 2 Jul 2017

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@valyala This would be great, but even greater would be a @valyala powered middleware project that incorporates fasthttp and fasthttprouter and comes with lots of middleware (conversions from existing middleware). If done elegantly, I think it might even become the standard.

nkev on 3 Jan 2016

oharlem on 13 Jan 2016

@valyala @mpmlj @nkev I am going to evaluate it this week!

manucorporat on 27 Jan 2016

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night-codes on 8 Feb 2016

Hi @manucorporat ,

will v2 be based on fasthttp? I guess so, because of your speed improvements mentioned in another issue.
I would be really glad if I could help you with the transition.

SlinSo on 22 Feb 2016

@slinso hi there,

We are looking forward creating a plug able interface for http compliant packages such as fast http.

javierprovecho on 22 Feb 2016

@javierprovecho
Ok, sounds nice! https://github.com/labstack/echo/blob/v2/engine/engine.go looks like the same idea.

SlinSo on 23 Feb 2016

This is a fantastic idea! Imagine Gin's speed on fasthttp... +1

EwanValentine on 26 Feb 2016

Huangsir on 26 Feb 2016

See also fasthttp-routing from Yii author.

valyala on 26 Feb 2016

@manucorporat any news on your fasthttp evaluation?

nkev on 8 Mar 2016

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otraore on 14 Mar 2016

dxvgef on 15 Mar 2016

+1
Echo can run with FastHTTP server now.

liuzc on 3 Apr 2016

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Any updates on this? @manucorporat

otraore on 7 Apr 2016

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@otraore as I told you on gitter, let me try to make an experimental version of gin with fasthttp, this weekend on my spare time :wink:

javierprovecho on 9 Apr 2016

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@javierprovecho Good to hear! thats great news! Maybe add the milestone v2 to this issue?

otraore on 9 Apr 2016

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Great news!! 👍

appleboy on 9 Apr 2016

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@otraore that was too good, fasthttp is not what I though. It doesn't compensate the effort of moving every aspect of gin v1 to fasthttp because of how different it is. Definitely I'm going to create the v2 milestone, but this is going to take some more time than just a weekend.

(I started a "fasthttp" branch, however it is not functional :sleeping: I'll keep watching it next week)

javierprovecho on 11 Apr 2016

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I think I'm going to follow the path @manucorporat did sometime, forking fasthttprouter and evolving it to gin-fast or something similar...

javierprovecho on 14 Apr 2016

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Huangsir on 20 Dec 2016

Note that echo author decided to drop fasthttp support to bring back simplicity for echo v3 https://github.com/labstack/echo/issues/665. Maybe this can help with some decisions.

jbub on 28 Dec 2016

Yes, everybody can refer release note for echo v3.

appleboy on 28 Dec 2016

gin will not use fasthttprouter ?

rebootcode on 2 Jul 2017

@rebootcode No.

appleboy on 2 Jul 2017

https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin/issues/498#issuecomment-312466393

No as ( It will use ) or ( It will not use ) ?

rebootcode on 2 Jul 2017

as @jbub comments.

Note that echo author decided to drop fasthttp support to bring back simplicity for echo v3 labstack/echo#665. Maybe this can help with some decisions.

I think we don't support fasthttprouter in the future.

appleboy on 2 Jul 2017

@javierprovecho @tboerger What is your thoughts?

appleboy on 2 Jul 2017

I personally don't want to support it. It got some downsides like workarounds, no http2... Just to mention 2 reasons.

tboerger on 2 Jul 2017

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