Web server benchmarking is the process of evaluating a web server's performance under a certain workload. Software profiling is the process of analyzing a computer program's use of memory and execution time in order to optimize the program's inner structure.
In this part of the chapter, we will set up and test a few of the tools that will allow us to benchmark our web server and profile the source code that we will be analyzing in the next chapters of this book.
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