From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF167BBC1 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:59:12 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjgBACpIDEjOvjGxfGdsb2JhbACRVwEBCwUCBwcWmCU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,690,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="9846208" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Apr 2008 16:59:12 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m3LExCao013397 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:59:12 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjgBACpIDEjOvjGxfGdsb2JhbACRVwEBCwUCBwcWmCU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,690,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="9846207" Received: from web54607.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.177]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with SMTP; 21 Apr 2008 16:59:12 +0200 Received: (qmail 28933 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Apr 2008 14:59:11 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=dZfv8uuD+Vf2WlqJ7hz2aRF7eREbUDQKa7GXX5BAzGSkYvNhDmp/xphPMbsO6X1TAJ3NWMWQms64RaW/UOa0rM+/SClUIGj4Ghg4FQOfnsO47jAjiXJe/31UhAzv0qM0lZKY9MZu4vEaJz4Hfe3IAHi6zFWTQpVz+VN0/Hx7Z94=; X-YMail-OSG: O.wStQoVM1lsTCpfMWBf2WFmqvkxttvr1u7iGkLl9H2b6j_S.xWJlC.FIp.Kt6ORCZAWfsK2jljwz7VWuedUsyJSKYSEOBWUKVatUydKyoQODlUkmh4Ilx7PHz4- Received: from [85.240.112.243] by web54607.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:59:11 BST Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:59:11 +0100 (BST) From: Dario Teixeira Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The closing gap (warning: long, inflammatory rant) To: Berke Durak , Jon Harrop Cc: Caml List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <142199.28761.qm@web54607.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 480CABC0.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 cheers:01 caml-list:01 alain:01 data:02 shootout:02 languages:03 dynamic:03 apps:04 center:95 frameworks:05 long:06 benchmarks:07 aspx:92 docs:07 Hi, > Now data center owners love Ruby-based apps, since you need 60 servers to do > 300 requests/second. Is this hyperbole or hard numbers? Since I finally managed to use natdynlink on an AMD64 machine (see Alain Frisch's today's message to this list), I ran some simple benchmarks on a dummy Ocsigen application generating dynamic pages. The results were more than good enough for my purposes, though I can't really compare them with other languages/frameworks: http://nleyten.com/2008/04/21/simple-benchmarks-on-the-ocsigen-server.aspx Could Ocsigen be a killer app for Ocaml? Should we think of setting up a simple "web framework shootout"? (Though personally I think the advantages of Ocsigen go way beyond speed). Cheers, Dario Teixeira __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html