Massimo, the best answer would be another benchmark :-) seriously we should make an "hello world" that goes blazing fast. I agree that speed in a benchmark is not everything, it could give some hints on optimizations to be done. The issue in this case could be simply a file lock. (session.forget() ?)
mic 2012/9/25 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>: > First of all that is not a apples to apples comparison. For example some of > those frameworks do not support sessions out of the box. Web2py has many > features always enabled by default and the other frameworks are more > bare-bone. > > Anyway, on a simple hello world request, without database and without > template, web2py is slower then Flask and Bottle because they do nothing > beyond serving the request. web2py does more by preparing an environment, > creating the session, parsing cookies, parsing the accept language, looks > for the closer internationalization file and pluralization rules, validates > the request. copies the input stream to temp file, an more. > > In a real production environment they are all dominated by template > rendering and database connections. The times are very close because db-io > always dominates over everything else. > > It is like saying that from 0 to 10mph a moped is better than a car. Of > course it it, it weight less. But from 0 to 100mph the car is better because > has a bigger engine. The moped does not even reach 100mph. Mind I am not > saying web2py is more bloated. It is smaller. I am saying this is not a > apple to apple comparison. > > Web2py 2.0.x has lots of changes that make it faster. > > The memory leak issue is an accusation that has been floating around. The > creator of another framework has pointed out that in web2py is you create a > class with a self reference and a __del__ method it will create a memory > leak. True but: 1) we do not do it, 2) we tell users not to do it; 3) this > is a python problem, not a web2py problem. In every web framework a class > with a self reference and a __del__ method will cause a memory leak. > > Massimo > > > > > > > On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 07:01:55 UTC-5, Jose C wrote: >> >> Just stumbled across this benchmark: >> >> http://mindref.blogspot.pt/2012/09/python-fastest-web-framework.html >> >> on the python group discussion: >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.lang.python/yu1_BQZsPPc >> >> The author also notes a memory leak problem with web2py but no specifics >> that I could see. >> >> Thoughts? >> > -- > > > --
