Subject: [bug#54560] [PATCH 12/47] gnu: Add go-github-com-julienschmidt-httprouter.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:47:34 +0100

Leo Nikkilä schreef op vr 25-03-2022 om 15:31 [+0200]:
> +    (synopsis "High performance HTTP request router")
> +    (description
> +     "HttpRouter is a lightweight high performance [...]
> +
> +In contrast to the default mux of Go's @code{net/http} package, this
> +router [...].  It also scales better.
> +
> +The router is optimized for high performance and a small memory
> +footprint.  It scales well even with very long paths and a large number
> +of routes.
> 

While it seems that HttpRouter actually has some evidence for these
claims about lightweightness and performance
(https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark),
it still leans rather close to marketing, and AFAIK the conclusions
have not been independently verified.

>   A compressing dynamic trie (radix tree) structure is used for

This is an implementation detail and hence doesn't seem relevant to me.

Greetings,
Maxime