Seth Michael Larson pointed out that the Python gzip module can be used as a CLI tool like this:
  • o11c@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s worth noting that the http.server module is based on socketserver.BaseServer.serve_forever, which is a atrocious.

    It uses a busy loop with a delay, so it both burns CPU and is unresponsive.

    (The fact that Python has had broken signal handling since 3.5 also hurts - EINTR should never be ignored from blocking calls)

    • Jim@programming.devOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I was just about to uninstall nginx…

      On a serious note: I’m not sure of the details of socketserver but I would think opening a socket would not be a cpu intensive process.