The following graph is in no way scientific.
One day the engineers at UsenetBinaries.com just decided to author a "Hello,
World" program on a variety of web development platforms to illustrate
general relative performance. There are *many* more techniques for analyzing
the performance of a web development platform then the one we used, and
performance certainly isnt the only criteria when selecting a development
platform either.
Obviously UsenetBinaries.com moves a tremendous amount of dynamic content
daily, so we were interested in seeing how the different platforms stood up
to what we were currently using. We posted our results here as a public
service.
The benchmarks included mod_perl2, C Apache Modules, Static HTML,
C, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Ruby On Rails CGI/FastCGI, and PHP.
All of the tests were run standalone on an unloaded webserver consisting of
a 2.4 GHz Tyan Opteron 150,1 GB DDR 400 ECC RAM, running Linux
2.6.8.1-20mdk, 64-bit.
In all cases, we followed the most straightforward and canonical install
instructions we
could find, compiled 64-bit from source with gcc -O2 (3.4.1), and always implemented
the 'Hello, World' as dynamic text.
Webserver was Apache 2.2.
The test simply consisted of running
ab -c 1000 http://localhost/etc.html
on the same server. We would do this several times
to come up with a good representational number.
We did also play with multiple requests but the overall *relative* performance
was similar.
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vs ICC Compiler Benchmarks - Perl Executable Performance
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