From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T00:06:24+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

harrisj@schizopolis.net writes:

> Are there
> good benchmarks for OO languages? Or dynamic languages? Are there good
> benchmarks that could actually measure the types of uses I need, where I'm
> building a web front end to a DB store? I don't know about you, but my job
> has never involved fractals.

There was posted here a few weeks ago, in a thread on rails
performance, a benchmark that measured how fast a "hello world" web
app could respond under heavy load.  This doesn't measure the DB back
end piece, of course, but it's a little closer to useful for you than
Mandelbrot calculations.

In fact, digging through Google desktop searches of my recently
visited web pages finds it here:

http://www.usenetbinaries.com/doc/Web_Platform_Benchmarks.html

Rails loses this contest big-time.  Perl CGI scripts even beat a Rails
FastCGI setup.  Rails FastCGI is about 15 times slower than plain ruby
FastCGI.

Also, it seems clear that at least for very simple web apps, PHP 4 to
PHP 5 is a distinct performance regression.