# 2020-06-07 19:48:43.446858 UTC (+0000)

Tales from Diversity

Today while  developing geomyidae  and trying out,  two things  made the
life for all gopherspace using geomyidae better:

1.) With 20h moving to libressl  in Gentoo, which is not really possible
in binary distributions, he found out  about tls.h, a simple TLS API and
implemented in half a day TLS for geomyidae. Now it is there.


2.) While debugging geomyidae, Evil_Bob was running geomyidae on OpenBSD
and so  we realized,  sendfile() does  not work  on sockets  and related
stuff. Removing all sendfile() support  saved source code lines and sped
up geomyidae on lo  from 500 Mbit/s to 1.3 Gbit/s  on plaintext and from
100 Mbit/s to 1.3 Gbit/s on TLS. Everyone will profit from this.


What are the lessons from this?

* Make simple, straightforward, easy to use APIs.

* Run diverse systems and configurations for finding bugs. If you do not,
  you end up like the web, which can easily fail with some small software
  failures.


Have fun!

Sincerely yours,

20h
Senior Tale Officer (STO)