TreeFrog: high-speed full-stack C++ framework for web applications

http://www.treefrogframework.org/

by ingve • 12 years ago

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kirab• 12 years ago

The sad thing is: This framework isn't really fast. Just by virtue of being C++ nothing gets faster. Have a look at the web framework benchmarks:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9

wasyl• 12 years ago

I had no idea rails/django are sooooo slow

angersock3• 12 years ago

...which should tell you that speed really isn't as big a deal in web dev as some would have you believe. :)

programminggeek• 12 years ago

Rails IS slow, but part of the reason it shows so poorly on that tests is a weird glitch in how unicorn and wrk interact. In my testing for the Ruby Web Benchmark Report (http://www.madebymarket.com/blog/dev/ruby-web-benchmark-repo...) I ran into pretty bizarre low performance on unicorn and wrk.

TechEmpower uses Unicorn because it's the fastest MRI based rack server solution.

In JRuby, you have a few more high performance options, and Torquebox 4 is nearly as fast as Go in Hello World.

That being said, the only benchmark that matters is how your app performs on your tech stack. Anyone can write a slow DB query that ruins performance.

ashk26_hn• 12 years ago

That may be true, but the main point that's being ignored by such statements should always be mentioned: Django and the like in scripting languages offer an easy to use and fast to implement way of getting an idea off the ground. Once you really go beyond millions of requests, it should be also possible to hire Java developers then to rewrite the app for scaling beyond the tipping point of scripting language apps.

dyscrete2• 12 years ago

Very informative link, I don't really use PHP anymore but I was surprised to see Laravel is faster than Symfony though it uses many Symfony components.

codexon• 12 years ago

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I see a few other languages higher than that.

zem2• 12 years ago

wish they'd either included a language section in the graph view, or had the table view sortable by column other than alphabetical name.

bhauer• 12 years ago

There is a "Lng" (language) column at the right of the table. It's the second color-coded attribute column, after the framework classification column.

You can also filter out languages you don't care about by using the filters panel (click the "Show filters panel" button).

killertypo• 12 years ago

Go is pretty new and pretty dang high on that list. Which is nice to me. It also makes me want to give it a shot in a project. Are there any nice templating frameworks for Go - that would be pretty much the only thing to prevent me from using it. I need templates like I do in Django.

MetaCosm• 12 years ago

http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/ - data driven, context aware (smart escaping) templates in the standard library and gobs of 3rd party libraries.

ihsw• 12 years ago

Pongo2

https://github.com/flosch/pongo2

srcmap• 12 years ago

I am fan of golang, but I am very surprised that it is only 50% of Java and only 33% of c++.

dyscrete2• 12 years ago

I don't really see the benefit of using Qt in this case, and the framework states that because it's in C++ it's faster which is just plain wrong.

angersock3• 12 years ago

They're likely building on the low-level OS and networking primitives in Qt.

cheez• 12 years ago

I don't see why they use Qt doing things like this...

https://github.com/treefrogframework/treefrog-framework/blob...

Niten• 12 years ago

Qt comes with a built-in event loop which can be really nice for certain types of asynchronous servers.

aliakhtar2• 12 years ago

I don't see any mention of c++ being compiled to javascript. Without that, this seems to be server-only, not full stack.

On the other hand, there is Google Web Toolkit which lets you write both client and server code in Java, which is very close to C++ in performance, and compiles the client code to very efficient javascript. (CSS is also compiled into being very efficient.) http://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html

TreeFrog: high-speed full-stack C++ framework for web applications

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