[Seaside] Benchmark proposal

[Ramon Leon]

> Hi all!
> 
> Just wanted to mention that there is IIRC a bit of work that 
> can be done in the lower levels of Squeak web serving - at 
> least if you use KomHttpServer. I profiled and tweaked it 
> quite a bit (2-3 years ago) for fun and managed to squeeze 
> out a substantial improvement.
> 
> After the first obvious bottlenecks I think it boiled down to 
> header parsing etc and now it is getting tempting to see if 
> Exupery can improve it.
> 
> Anyway, some day I might get around looking at all that 
> again, if there is interest.
> 
> regards, Göran
> 
> PS. I also think benchmarking for pure speed is almost 
> totally uninteresting when it comes to Seaside vs Others. But 
> a benchmark can be useful when tuning and looking for 
> bottlenecks. In real apps there are almost always other 
> bottlenecks to look at - like db access, proper caching etc.

There's always interest in tuning bottlenecks and making them faster.

Ramon Leon
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