Archive for September, 2008

Solar 1.0.0alpha2 released

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 (10:37)

After a long delay (almost a year) Solar has a new release: version 1.0.0alpha2. You ca read more about it on Solar’s new blog, which is where I’ll be trying to keep all the Solar-specific stuff from now on. (You may see cross-posting between there and here from time to time.) Thanks [...]

Rasmus Lerdorf’s Laconic(a) Performance

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 (11:44)

As many of you know, I maintain a series of web framework benchmarks. The project codebase is here and the most recent report is here.
It was with some interest, then, that I viewed Rasmus Lerdorf’s slides on the subject of performance benchmarking. I’m beginning to think there’s something unexpected or unexamined in his testing [...]

Labor Day Benchmarks

Monday, September 1st, 2008 (10:42)

By popular request, here is an update of my web framework benchmarks report. You can see previous result sets here:

How Fast Is Your Framework?
New Year’s Benchmarks
Framework and Application Benchmarking slides at DCPHP 2007

Before you comment on this post, please have the courtesy to read at least the first two articles above; I am tired [...]