hical
Engine · C++
Hical is a modern C++20/26 high-performance web framework built on Boost.Asio, featuring coroutine-based async I/O (boost::asio::awaitable<T>), three-tier PMR memory pools, zero-copy HTTP parsing via picohttpparser, and a self-developed WebSocket stack (RFC 6455 with permessage-deflate). SO_REUSEPORT multi-acceptor model on Linux. Dual-track C++26 reflection layer (P2996 / C++20 macro fallback).
Achievements
🥇 2 Gold. Top three of a field, taken in this entry's own league: the family composite, the same composite among entries written in the same language, and each test profile it is scored on. Every field is the one the badges publish, so a medal and a badge always say the same thing. How medals are awarded.
| Medal | Award | Field | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 Gold | Within its language | C++ · HTTP/1.1 | 1 of 3 |
| 🥇 Gold | Test profile | Efficiency · Latency-10K | 1 of 24 |
Composite rank
Each profile of a family is worth 100 to the entry that leads it, and the composite is the sum over the family, less 2.5% for each of routing, middleware, request and response the entry does not do for you - its completeness factor, which the WebSocket and gRPC families do not carry. The field is this entry's own league: engines and reverse proxies are scored apart from frameworks. How it works.
| Family | Rank | Composite |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP/1.1 | 14 of 26 | 3349 |
| WebSocket | 9 of 9 | 802 |
Every result
Alpha Round, 10 runs. Requests per second is the best of three; latency, CPU and memory come from that run.
| Category | Profile | Conns | Req/sec | Avg | p99 | CPU | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connection | Baseline | 4,096 | 3,316,539 | 1.23ms | 6.76ms | 6610.9% | 131MiB |
| Connection | Pipelined | 4,096 | 4,929,317 | 13.32ms | 35.30ms | 6308.7% | 136MiB |
| Connection | Short-lived | 4,096 | 2,405,974 | 1.68ms | 22.80ms | 6435.4% | 132MiB |
| Efficiency | Latency-10K | 1,024 | 9,983 | 71.2us | 114.0us | 27.7% | 52MiB |
| Efficiency | Latency-1M | 1,024 | 997,737 | 97.6us | 180.0us | 2735.3% | 50MiB |
| Workload | JSON Comp | 4,096 | 260,323 | 15.65ms | 76.40ms | 6550.4% | 226MiB |
| Workload | JSON Comp | 16,384 | 256,005 | 58.25ms | 931.70ms | 6227.8% | 637MiB |
| WebSocket | Echo | 512 | 3,390,647 | 150us | 2.08ms | 6479.2% | 46MiB |
| WebSocket | Echo | 4,096 | 3,678,523 | 1.11ms | 6.73ms | 6550.2% | 157MiB |
| WebSocket | Echo | 16,384 | 3,351,504 | 4.86ms | 11.60ms | 6531.6% | 509MiB |
Compared with
The C++ entries around hical on the HTTP/1.1 composite, and the one leading them. The last column shows every profile side by side.
| Entry | Composite | vs hical | |
|---|---|---|---|
| drogon | 4461 | +33% | head to head |
| userver | 3256 | -3% | head to head |
| proxygen | 1227 | -63% | head to head |
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