imclab/bjoern

A screamingly fast Python WSGI server written in C.

bjoern: Fast And Ultra-Lightweight HTTP/1.1 WSGI Server

A screamingly fast, ultra-lightweight WSGI server for CPython, written in C using Marc Lehmann's high performance libev event loop and Ryan Dahl's http-parser.

Why It's Cool

bjoern is the fastest, smallest and most lightweight WSGI server out there, featuring

• ~ 1000 lines of C code
• Memory footprint ~ 600KB
• Single-threaded and without coroutines or other crap
• Can bind to TCP host:port addresses and Unix sockets (thanks @k3d3!)
• Full persistent connection ("keep-alive") support in both HTTP/1.0 and 1.1, including support for HTTP/1.1 chunked responses

Installation

libev

Arch Linux

pacman -S libev

Ubuntu

apt-get install libev-dev

Fedora, CentOS

yum install libev-devel

Mac OS X (using homebrew)

brew install libev

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bjoern

For most users, the easiest way to install bjoern is using pip. Make sure libev is installed and then:

pip install bjoern

You can also build bjoern by directly using the provided setup.py file (this is probably most useful if you actually want to hack on bjoern):

python setup.py install

On some Linux systems (notably Fedora and CentOS), the libev headers may be installed outside of the default include path. In order to build bjoern you will need to export CFLAGS when running setup.py, for instance:

CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/libev python setup.py install

Usage

# Bind to TCP host/port pair:
bjoern.run(wsgi_application, host, port)

# TCP host/port pair, enabling SO_REUSEPORT if available.
bjoern.run(wsgi_application, host, port, reuseport=True)

# Bind to Unix socket:
bjoern.run(wsgi_application, 'unix:/path/to/socket')

# Bind to abstract Unix socket: (Linux only)
bjoern.run(wsgi_application, 'unix:@socket_name')

Alternatively, the mainloop can be run separately:

bjoern.listen(wsgi_application, host, port)
bjoern.run()

You can also simply pass a Python socket(-like) object. Note that you are responsible for initializing and cleaning up the socket in that case.

bjoern.server_run(socket_object, wsgi_application)
bjoern.server_run(filedescriptor_as_integer, wsgi_application)