From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA14055; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:49:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA14163 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:49:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.131]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6DHn4j19379 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:49:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from beertje.william.bogus (williamc.xs4all.nl [213.84.56.92]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01110; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:49:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from williamc@localhost) by beertje.william.bogus (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f6DHo5R14658; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:50:05 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: beertje.william.bogus: williamc set sender to williamc@paneris.org using -f From: William Chesters MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15183.13516.617769.879507@beertje.william.bogus> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:50:04 +0200 (CEST) To: Caml list , web-caml@quatramaran.ens.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Web Development with OCaml In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Lyn A Headley writes: > I'd also like to make a point in passing. Dynamic web development > performance has less to do with the implementation language of the web > application than it does with the database backend and associated > indexes, and with your caching and concurrency strategy. That has been our experience with Melati; one can easily end up database-bound---or more likely waiting on the staggeringly slow JDBC driver (try postgresql's some time ...). Melati's cacheing can be very helpful. But of course concurrency tends to work against cacheing ... > I believe, if performance is a main concern, that you will have to > commit deep thought to those issues especially. Depends on the kind of market you are thinking of. The performance we get out of Melati+postgres on a cheap PC is adequate for the great majority of all known websites, without really trying. If you put a good ocaml-based equivalent on a 4-way SMP box talking to a database on another box, you would be comfortably into the hundreds of hits per second I reckon. ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr