From ec10d24ac6a018cb76bbecc983b9cd5677c0891d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Channel Cat <channelcat@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 03:57:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Minor speed improvements

---
 sanic/sanic.py  | 10 +++++-----
 sanic/server.py |  5 ++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sanic/sanic.py b/sanic/sanic.py
index 98bea9f9..a8b532ce 100644
--- a/sanic/sanic.py
+++ b/sanic/sanic.py
@@ -97,21 +97,21 @@ class Sanic:
         """
         try:
             # Middleware process_request
-            response = None
+            response = False
             # The if improves speed.  I don't know why
             if self.request_middleware:
                 for middleware in self.request_middleware:
                     response = middleware(request)
                     if isawaitable(response):
                         response = await response
-                    if response is not None:
+                    if response:
                         break
 
             # No middleware results
-            if response is None:
+            if not response:
                 # Fetch handler from router
                 handler, args, kwargs = self.router.get(request)
-                if handler is None:
+                if not handler:
                     raise ServerError("'None' was returned while requesting a handler from the router")
 
                 # Run response handler
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ class Sanic:
                         _response = middleware(request, response)
                         if isawaitable(_response):
                             _response = await _response
-                        if _response is not None:
+                        if _response:
                             response = _response
                             break
 
diff --git a/sanic/server.py b/sanic/server.py
index f824d17e..2939b54f 100644
--- a/sanic/server.py
+++ b/sanic/server.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class HttpProtocol(asyncio.Protocol):
         self.loop = loop
         self.transport = None
         self.request = None
-        self.parser = None
+        self.parser = False
         self.url = None
         self.headers = None
         self.signal = signal
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ class HttpProtocol(asyncio.Protocol):
             return self.bail_out("Request too large ({}), connection closed".format(self._total_request_size))
 
         # Create parser if this is the first time we're receiving data
-        if self.parser is None:
-            assert self.request is None
+        if not self.parser:
             self.headers = []
             self.parser = httptools.HttpRequestParser(self)