From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-07-02T22:11:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Huge performance gap On 7/2/06, Reggie Mr wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: > > On 7/1/06, Reggie Mr wrote: > >> Here is a simple graph of performance by different platforms. > >> http://www.usenetbinaries.com/doc/Web_Platform_Benchmarks.html > > I can't think of a more useless "test" other than anything put out by > > the Alioth shootout. > I would agree...except Ruby did VERY poorly in this "useless" test. No except. It's a useless test. I wouldn't trust a single thing about it. What this is *essentially* measuring, especially with CGI-style output, is startup time. Ruby does have a slower start-up time than other options. This is *particularly* true of the nonsensical test of running Rails in a CGI mode. When real-world tests are done, Ruby *is* slower for now. But it's not as slow as this would suggest. I never ended up doing an apache bench on it, but at least subjectively, Ruwiki rendered as fast or faster than most PHP wikis. That's why I said that a guestbook would be a far better test and more reliable. It's simple enough to implement in C, yet complex enough that you're going to get more interesting results. You'd also get a decent measure of code size differences. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca