From: Eric Kidd <emk.lists@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T04:50:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby performance

On Mar 22, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Randy Kramer wrote:
> 3 million updates per day doesn't mean much to me.  With a little  
> arithmetic,
> that looks like a sustained average load of ~ 33 TPS.

By an interesting coincidence, Rails sites tend to support about 30  
hits/second/server on decent hardware, assuming they have to go all  
the way to the database and render views. With action caching (which  
bypasses the database and view rendering, but still runs Ruby code),  
I've seen benchmarks in the 500 hits/second range.

So Ruby might very well be a plausible solution, depending on a  
number of factors. Given the sweet simplicity of ActiveRecord, you  
could even spend a couple of days building a prototype and seeing how  
fast it goes. :-)

Cheers,
Eric