From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-06-21T06:03:15+09:00
Subject: Re: rubys web performance

Florian Weber wrote:
> 
>> I don't know rails but if you work with a non cgi architecture, like
>> FCGI, webrick, mod_ruby. Write an init page that requires all files
>> (not just the toplevel ones) that will be loaded.
> 
> that means that mod_ruby and fcgi actually dont cache all the
> loaded classes? i thought exactly thats what it does.

You are right.

> however im still wondering why my heavy php app, where
> classes are not cached, no accelerator is used, etc is even a bit
> faster than a super simple ruby example where classes are cached..

I don't know rails, but all the ruby web frameworks I looked at were
extremely memory and CPU intensive. If you use the relational DB like it
is supposed to, without a generic OO mapping layer, and a simple
templating system like Kwartz, you will see that performance is similar
to PHP.