> > Quick semi-related question: have their been benchmark comparisons on > recent versions on Django when compared with recent version on web2py? >
I'm not aware of any benchmarks directly comparing Django and web2py. If you were to make a comparison, you would have to be careful to make sure the two frameworks are doing the same work, as they do not both do all the same things by default (for example, in web2py, you would want to turn off database migrations, which are on by default, in order to get a proper comparison). Specifically regarding database operations, you might expect web2py to be a bit faster, as the web2py DAL tends to be faster than ORMs (Django uses an ORM). I haven't seen direct comparison's to the Django ORM, but a couple of benchmarks have shown the web2py DAL to be faster than the SQLAlchemy ORM ( http://web2py.com/AlterEgo/default/show/76, http://static.thadeusb.com/total_time.jpg). Aside from that, I suspect there wouldn't be much difference in performance between the two frameworks (similarly and properly configured). Performance will probably depend more on your application and server architecture and the database. Anthony
