From: Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2006-01-22T01:53:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel 0.1.1 -- A Fast Ruby Web Server (It Works Now, Maybe)


On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:37 AM, Sascha Ebach wrote:

>> One thing, could you do the same test against WEBrick using the  
>> examples/webrick_compare.rb script?  Just for my info.  You'll  
>> need to > /dev/null the output to make the test more fair.
>
> Alright, here you go.
>
> first Mongrel:
> ...
> Requests per second:    514.47 [#/sec] (mean)
>
> and WEBrick started with
> ...
> Requests per second:    84.70 [#/sec] (mean)
>

That's great.  The performance is consistently better.

> These results are very promising. I bet if you can manage to make a  
> native win32 version the results will double or triple. A 5 times  
> boost will even make Cygwin a viable development environment. I  
> suspect that the win32 version will even be fast enough for  
> production.

Yes, I'm gonna have to really investigate a native win32 one.  If  
it's this fast, and the features are there, it'll be the easiest way  
possible.  Only thing in win32 that would be missing is basic server  
stuff like daemonize and so on.

Thanks for the testing.

Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/