On-Rev founders - some speed data?
On-Rev founders are in a unique position at this point to give some indication of the performance of the new facility (granting of course that there may be also sorts of debugging etc going on, or at least further optimisations possible in the future). I don't think that speed is going to be the main issue in choosing a server-side scripting language (and I know that it's rare that you can't make more of a difference by improving the algorithm than by changing the language) - but I think that perceived or presumed lack of speed could be an argument against a new entrant in this market. My experience with Revolution on the desktop is that I've recoded C apps into Revolution and found that my app got faster - because I was standing on the shoulders of Scott Raney, Mark W et al who'd put serious efforts into optimising facilities. Of course there are also odd things that are very slow (you can crop an image faster in Transcript than using the built-in command, whch could perhaps be taken as a tribute to the speed of all the commands other than 'crop') - but in general my experience is that Rev apps are not only fast, but faster than non-Rev programmers assume. They think that we get fast development time at the expense of slow execution time - I think we often get both. But against scripting languages on the server we're in a different realm, and I don't know what we should expect. Has any one done anything like this? Ideally, someone might have taken an existing facility in PHP or Python or Perl or Ruby (is Ruby installed on On-Rev?) and recoded it in Rev. Otherewise googling eg benchmark php python produces a lot of less-than-real-world tests that have been translated into various languages for comparison. I'd be very interested to know how on-rev matches up. It would be great if someone who has access to the new kit could do some tests which for the first time can be running on the same server in the same conditions (as Apache module rather than CGI) and hence give some kind of actual data points. - Ben ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: On-Rev founders - some speed data?
2009/4/24 Ben Rubinstein benr...@cogapp.com Of course there are also odd things that are very slow (you can crop an image faster in Transcript than using the built-in command, whch could perhaps be taken as a tribute to the speed of all the commands other than 'crop') :) Do you use lines and items, or construct arrays from the imagedata? Has any one done anything like this? Ideally, someone might have taken an existing facility in PHP or Python or Perl or Ruby (is Ruby installed on On-Rev?) and recoded it in Rev. Otherewise googling eg benchmark php python produces a lot of less-than-real-world tests that have been translated into various languages for comparison. I'd be very interested to know how on-rev matches up. Great idea. Not sure what a real world test would be - but how about basing it on Andre's Blog. There will be blogs in every language, and we could do a basic speed test and also show how easy it is to code? NB - AFAIK there is no mention of python on On-Rev - but I've not tested to see if it is installed - can;t imagine it won't be. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: On-Rev founders - some speed data?
On Apr 24, 2009, at 6:59 AM, David Bovill wrote: NB - AFAIK there is no mention of python on On-Rev - but I've not tested to see if it is installed - can;t imagine it won't be. There is a note in the on-rev forum that Python will/has been installed. Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: On-Rev founders - some speed data?
Don't you just love Forums :( 2009/4/24 Jim Lyons teacherji...@gmail.com On Apr 24, 2009, at 6:59 AM, David Bovill wrote: NB - AFAIK there is no mention of python on On-Rev - but I've not tested to see if it is installed - can;t imagine it won't be. There is a note in the on-rev forum that Python will/has been installed. Jim ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
