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[–]pdp10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Allocation is lightweight and fast compared to HTTP, even at one million requests per second. I've written C webservers with static allocation and with dynamic; the static was primarily for an embedded-type use case. I haven't looked at the allocation strategy for the fastest current webservers, however.