Re: ANNOUNCE: Updated Hello World Web Application Benchmarks

2000-01-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: I can understand that; I just don't want mod_perl users to get a reputation as the Mindcraft of web application benchmarks. I'm not sure I see how that can happen when we quite clearly state that php4 is faster than mod_perl. Only one person

Re: ANNOUNCE: Updated Hello World Web Application Benchmarks

2000-01-29 Thread Perrin Harkins
Joshua Chamas wrote: There is no way that people are going to benchmark 10+ different environments themselves, so this merely offers a quick fix to get people going with their own comparisons. I agree that having the code snippets for running hello world on different tools collected in one

Re: ANNOUNCE: Updated Hello World Web Application Benchmarks

2000-01-29 Thread Joshua Chamas
Perrin Harkins wrote: I think we would need more numbers from the exact same people, on the same machines, with the same configuration, the same client, the same network, the same Linux kernel... In other words, controlled conditions. I hear you, so how about a recommendation that people

Re: ANNOUNCE: Updated Hello World Web Application Benchmarks

2000-01-29 Thread Perrin Harkins
I think too that the OS/machine results at http://www.chamas.com/bench/hello_bycode.html could be more accurate in comparing results if the results are also grouped by tester, network connection type, and testing client so each grouping would well reflect the relative speed differences web

ANNOUNCE: Updated Hello World Web Application Benchmarks

2000-01-28 Thread Joshua Chamas
Hey, I have updated the Hello World Web Application Benchmarks, now at http://www.chamas.com/bench/ The old page hello_world.html points here now, if anyone could update the link at http://perl.apache.org/, that would be grand. New in the fastest benchmarks are: + the fastest yet mod_perl

Re: ANNOUNCE: Updated Hello World Web Application Benchmarks

2000-01-28 Thread Joshua Chamas
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote: I have updated the Hello World Web Application Benchmarks, now at http://www.chamas.com/bench/ The end result of all this is that you have benchmark numbers which, while sort of entertaining, should not be used to make any