-----Original Message----- From: Alexander Staubo [mailto:alex@mop.no] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 10:36 AM To: Zope Mailing List (E-mail) Subject: RE: [Zope] Zope performance too low ?

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-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Michel Pelletier

Ouch. These extremely low transfer rates bother me. The theoretical bandwidth on a local machine transfer should be way, way higher. Otoh, your document was very small, so the stop/start, connect/teardown margins would be relatively high. I'd like to see benchmarks with longer (>3KB) documents.

I think these numbers are low because the trasfer was so fast and small, the mathmatical precision of the calculation was effected. I don't know how 'ab' calculates time, but it probably uses some less than high resolution system call.

Yep, but ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion, etc. have proven to be very, very fast.

I can see PHP being convincingly 'proven' to be fast, but I have doubts about the validity *any* comercial company says about their closed source program. Have there been independant benchmarks?

True, although your users (or you clients :-)) may be your best benchmark.

Yes we love our users. ;) -Michel