[Seaside] Java fastest for server-side web apps?

[Philippe Marschall]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 11.11.2013, at 23:36, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You'd need to submit a pull request to them with code that performs their tests to be considered.
>>>
>>> I looked at it one time and they also require that in memory databases not be used for the database test.
>>
>> You should be able to skip that test since things like undertow,
>> vertx, netty, grizzly, … don't come with an ORM. You don't want to run
>> the test unless you have a socket based db driver and a connection
>> pool (I believe PostgreS does these days).
>>
>> Also if we could run 8 images on each of the 3 servers (if I
>> understand their set up correctly), the results may not be terrible.
>> But a single image on a single machine is not going to be competitive.
>
> Would a glass setup competitive?

I don't know. For starters I don't know why we're CPU bound on
Pharo/Sqeak. I assume it's a combination of allocation and GC but
can't prove it. It's unlikely GemStone has the some limitations (since
the VM is different) but may very well have others.

Cheers
Philippe