From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2001-05-08T00:06:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14776] Re: Ruby and Web Applications

as you said.. it depends a lot of what you end up doing in that web-project.

I did a few trivial benchmarks of Ruby against PHP (modruby against modphp).
Just to give a number - doesn't mean too much of course:

We create a 2 pages and call them many times.

the first page prints out the current date and time
and a few strings and then runs a for-loops a few times.

the 2nd page does one mySQL query and prints the result.

I repeat all that 1000 times on a slow and old Pentium 266MHz & Apache.

                 1st page    2nd page
modphp    10.5          22.2
modruby   20.5          32.0
servlet      13.8          42.3

time is given in seconds.. 
I was surprised about the slow performance of the servlet in the 2nd case.. 
If you dig through the mailinglists, you can learn that it's because of the
driver-overheard and if you put in a bit more effort, you can get rid of that 
problem, but I wanted a simple and brute-force comparison.

I hope this helps & comments welcome.
I'd say it simply depends on how computing intensive your web-project
will be and how many people you need to support at the same time, etc.

Thanks,
	A

On Monday 07 May 2001 16:47, you wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2001, Chris Montgomery wrote:
> > Having just recently been made aware of Ruby, I am interested in learning
> > more about how/where the language is being used in web site applications.
> > Are developers using it to build web applications? Are there any examples
> > of web sites built with Ruby around to take a look at?
>
> I am also extremely interested in sites that have been built
> using Ruby. I do alot of development in Ruby, and
> I can imagine that it would be very beneficial to
> do my web development in Ruby as well.
>
> My biggest concern is, of course, the speed of Ruby.
> I have seen several posts latelty discussing this
> issue. I'm not sure it is a concern though.
> If Ruby is used like php with a mysql database, then
> chances are you are not asking ruby to do alot of
> complex computation, plus mysql's work is independent
> of ruby, so db acccess is not an issue.
>
> However, right now I'm guessing that there would be some performance
> degredation if I were to switch from php to ruby.
> But, this is why the post, I can only guess right now
> and although I am tempted to launch into a new web project
> with Ruby, instead of php, I would like to hear from others
> if it is going to be worth it right now.
>
> Jim
> =========================================================
> Jim Freeze
> jim@freeze.org
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> No comment at this time.
> http://www.freeze.org
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Armin

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