From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-05-09T18:00:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance - LOW ?


Please do not top post.  Thank you!

On 08.05.2007 19:28, knohr wrote:
> Considering that I often choose to spawn children from my programs, i
> would definately want to consider startup/shutdown time or 'cpu time'
> into the benchmark, as it would have a direct affect on 90% of
> production environments *especially websites*.

Hm...  I am not sure.  Fast web site frameworks usually do not require 
spawning processes all the time because they have modules loaded into 
the webserver, use FastCGI or similar.  The reason is of course even if 
the programming environment's startup overhead is low there is still the 
OS imposed overhead of creating processes.  And that cannot be reduced 
easily.

Kind regards

	robert