On 28 Feb 2000, Gerardo Richarte wrote:

>     has anybody done any benchmarks on PWS and/or Comanche
> performance, compared to Apache?

Not that I know - but you should post those questions to the PWS list,
too.

>     My personal, intuitive point, is:
> 
>     While Squeak's performance on Socket serving and File accessing
> may be slower (is it true), using squeak for modules (a.k.a. cgi-bins)
> may be faster, compared to perl, php3, asp performance (this 3
> languages are interpreted, not compiled to native. And are the 3
> languages most used for web development)
>
>     Can somebody tell me if I'm right? or at least if what I said
> looks right?

Sure - it should be as fast as Java servlets. But FastCGI diminishes the
loading overhead for Perl based CGIs, too. And for text processing, Perl
is still faster than Squeak (IMO, no benchmarks).

  -Bert-