Re: NT/IIS/PerlEx vs (MS)-ASP : stupid benckmark

[Valter Mazzola <tx...@hotmail.com>]

>From: Gunther Birznieks <gu...@extropia.com>
>Reply-To: gunther@extropia.com
>To: Nicolas MONNET <ni...@monnet.to>
>CC: Valter Mazzola <tx...@hotmail.com>, modperl@apache.org
>Subject: Re: NT/IIS/PerlEx vs ASP : stupid benckmark
>Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 22:03:12 -0400
>
>It may be a "stupid" benchmark. But no one seems to have commented on the 
>CPU
>rates. Why was PerlEx 100% and PerlScript 45% on the same machine,

NB.it's M$-ASP not PerlScript

valter



same
>ActiveState Perl (presumable), same CPU config. And yet took the same 
>amount of
>time to complete.
>
>I find that interesting. I suspect that it is a trick with how the OS views 
>CPU
>time (eg user time vs system calls vs IO wait) in the two architectures, 
>but it
>would be interesting to know why this is. Especially if mod_perl ends up
>adopting a similar round robining of Perl interpreters among apache threads
>later on down the line (becoming more similar to PerlEx architecture).
>
>Later,
>    Gunther
>
>Nicolas MONNET wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Valter Mazzola wrote:
> > |i've made a stupid unscientific benckmark:
> > |
> > |the program loops 1000000 and print a series of "a ", PerlEx takes the 
>same
> > |time as ASP (same NT machine) , BUT processor goes 100% with PerlEx, 
>45%
> > |with ASP.
> > |
> > |Can someone benchmark mod_perl under Win32, using the same stupid 
>program ?
> >
> > I don't mean to be rude, but this is one stupid benchmark! Basically
> > useless for that matter. You're not going to demonstrate anything with
> > this.
> >
> > Now a good question is: what would be a good benchmark?
> >
> > What about doing some real life stuff, like get big results from a
> > database, and calculate something over them, and print the (big?) result
> > back?
> >
> > (Now this is not flamebait, I'm really wondering: why run mod_perl apps 
>on
> > WinNT? )
>

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