190,000 req/seq (micro benchmarks) ... Haskell webserver shootout continues

http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/warp-speed-ahead

by dons • 15 years ago

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wingo• 15 years ago

What benchmark is this?

trobertson• 15 years ago

It looks like they are comparing the new speeds to the first benchmark on this page:

http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/announcing-warp

eelco2• 15 years ago

The article mentions the "pong" benchmark which seems to reside here: https://github.com/snoyberg/benchmarks. Looking at the code is doesn't do anything besides answering "pong" to any request so it's mostly about testing the overhead of the webserver, not its resilience against high loads.

antihero• 15 years ago

I may be wrong, but with those benchmarks, the "typical" servers are configured to load the text "PONG" from a file as opposed to the haskell servers that are hard-coded to do it. Surely I/O gives them a massive disadvantage?

StavrosK3• 15 years ago

I don't get what these benchmarks are supposed to do. I mean, it's great that a server takes 5 μs to complete a request, but when my own code takes 10 ms to run, does it really matter? It's 2,000 times slower, it's not like the webserver is the bottleneck...

eelco2• 15 years ago

Well, the faster the webserver, the more time is left for code to run while still having a very responsive website.

xuhu• 15 years ago

Let's suppose the webserver takes 0ms to run. How much would that help ?

StavrosK3• 15 years ago

To be honest, I'm not really aching for a 0.5% speedup (at best).

vicaya• 15 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

reirob2• 15 years ago

How do other non-Haskell Web-Servers perform? Is there somewhere a pong benchmark, say for Tomcat, PHP?

sharmajai• 15 years ago

Yes there is, this is a comparison to Snap, while a comparison of Snap to other frameworks including node.js is here: http://snapframework.com/blog/2010/11/17/snap-0.3-benchmarks

reirob2• 15 years ago

Many thanks for the link! I did not expect PHP and Ruby to be so slow...

I am happy to see that Haskell gets better support for Web programming.

jasonkester• 15 years ago

Misleading title. I expected to find a comparison of various webservers. Instead it looks like release notes from somebody's web framework.

Incidentally, the proposed HTML syntax in the 2nd half of the article is terrible. Developers have been closing HTML tags for 15 years now, to the point where we've associated little pyramids with correctness. All this syntax does is make all your code look broken all the time.

dons• 15 years ago

These are comparisons of various Haskell webservers, running the same micro benchmark, and the given number for Warp is provided. There are links to older benchmarks against servers in other languages.

Look for the big graph with different columns for different webservers.

190,000 req/seq (micro benchmarks) ... Haskell webserver shootout continues

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