Ticket #44 (new task)

Description

We're running up against some performance and extensibility limitations with the stock Mongrel library, so we'll need to research alternatives.

Alternatives to consider:

• Ebb
• Thin
• Evented or "Swiftiplied" Mongrel

One particularly attractive way to do this would be to make ThingFish a Rack protocol handler instead of subclassing from Mongrel::HTTPServer directly. This would let us remove the explicit dependency on Mongrel altogether, and also transparently switch between different backends to explore current and future frameworks.

We'll need to keep a close eye on performance characteristics while we do any experimentation, so we'll need profiling and benchmarking working before we do this.