From: knohr <just_a_techie200x@...>
Date: 2007-05-10T06:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance - LOW ?

On May 9, 2:00 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

Sorry about that, I meant environments that I work on.  i'm a QA
automation framework designer, and more oft then not, i use cgi
interfaces to drive my automation.