HTTP is a protocol used to communicate resources. HTTP is used to create and receive thousands of requests per second from the Discord API's application commands. Disgo uses fasthttp to manage HTTP.
| Library | Description | Last Commit (as of March 28, 2022) |
|---|---|---|
| gnet | Non-blocking Event-Driven Networking | 2 days |
| fasthttp | Zero-allocation-hotpath HTTP | 8 days |
| echo | net/http Web Framework |
20 days |
| fiber | fasthttp Web Framework |
*5 days |
| gearbox | fasthttp Web Framework |
4 months |
In modern Go, performance differences between HTTP frameworks depend on the underlying HTTP client: fasthttp is up to 10x faster than net/http, so any web framework that uses it (or allows you to swap from net/http) will maintain a higher performance. While gnet is the 6th fastest of all languages (faster than fasthttp for plaintext), using event-driven code (as opposed to Go's goroutine features) is not worth it.
echo dropped support for fasthttp in v3 which no longer makes it one of the fastest web frameworks for Go. gearbox is the 6th fastest framework of all languages, but it's extremely lightweight. fiber is not much slower than gearbox, more maintained, and contains many features useful for serving HTTP requests.
| Name | URL | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Web Frameworks Benchmark (Go) | https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result?l=go | March 24, 2022 |
| Best JSON response/s | https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=ph&test=json&s=1&l=zijocf-sf | Feb 8, 2021 |
| Best Plaintext response/s | https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=ph&test=plaintext&s=1&l=zijocf-sf | Feb 8, 2021 |