By canglan
via thislab.com
Published: May 25 2008 / 18:51
Today, when someone was asking on a forum about the efficiency of web frameworks, I thought I’d give the few frameworks I work with some more benchmark testing.
So I went ahead and benchmarked CodeIgniter, Kohana and Rails, using a simple ‘Hello World!’ page. Now before I post any benchmark results, you should know that I have previously done a benchmark test on CodeIgniter, Kohana and CakePHP. CodeIgniter and Kohana shared similar results.
This time though, the benchmark results surprised me.
Comments
Gregg Bolinger replied ago:
I can't bring myself to vote on this but I will say "Hello World" benchmarks mean squat. All those frameworks tout the ease and quickness of putting an application together. So why not do that? The same for each framework, and then benchmark that.
Rails might very well handle requests that much faster than CodeIgniter but Rails might be slower hitting the database. I don't know this for a fact, its just an example. But the author apparently doesn't know either. Please, just no more "Hello World" benchmarks, for any framework. It's pointless.
RobertL replied ago:
I'm wondering out loud how relevant this whole issue of "benchmarking" is. One obviously doesn't want to be bogged down by their framework but the highest value in any given application is the developers time not the processors.
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