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mcp-stama Ships a Zero-Dependency Rust MCP Server Claiming <2ms Cold Start vs 1.5–3s for Node and Python
mcp-stama, an Apache-2.0 single static binary written in Rust, posted to HN at 71 points as a lightweight alternative to Node.js and Python MCP servers for Cursor, Claude Desktop, and Windsurf. Its claims are cold startup under 2ms versus 1,500–3,000ms, p50 latency of 300µs–5ms versus 150–800ms, and under 10MB of memory versus 180–350MB. The repository has only 5 stars and 20 commits and publishes no reproducible benchmark harness, so the numbers are vendor-stated — but the argument that per-server runtime overhead compounds across a dozen configured MCP servers is the real signal for anyone running agents with heavy MCP setups.
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