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The most important things we changed are:

- Pluggable dispatcher, as the original webmachine copies all dispatch rules for every request. This gave us the greatest speedup as a Zotonic server typically has hundreds of dispatch rules.

- Removal of all process dictionary use. This makes testing easier and also gave a nice speedup.

- Use proplists instead of dicts for small dictionaries.

- Use a memocache for the resource callback functions.

- Removed the use of parametrized modules, this enables us to copy less data (and gives simpler code).

- Added support for protocol upgrades (for Websockets)

Our dispatcher also accepts regular expression checking on uri parameters. And it uses a different approach to vhost handling, allowing a redirect to the main hostname (which is needed when you set browser cookies).



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