From: Tim Becker <a2800276@...>
Date: 2006-05-18T08:49:37+09:00
Subject: Re: bm + net/http sanity check

> Only reason I'm asking: ping delta is about 100 ms, but the Net::HTTP delta
> is about 700 ms.  This does not jive with what I'm expecting, at all.

Maybe consider the relative delta. The GET request should take quite a
bit longer than an ICMP echo, even if you don't take the fact that one
is running in a benchmark framework of a scripting language and the
other is probably an OS executable.

These are different sites at different locations you're benchmarking,
correct? Maybe different technologies were used, one is serving static
pages, the other has really screwy dynamic pages with an Access
backend...

Also, doesn't `.get` actually download the content? Maybe the one page
is way bigger than the other?

   -tim