Re: [Chicken-users] 4.6.1 performance boost

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:17:20AM -0400, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I don't know what kind of magic Felix is doing, but for a very quick,
> simple and limited benchmark I can see a BIG performance improvement
> when comparing 4.5.0 and 4.6.1.
> 
> I've run a simple "hello world" application with awful and run
> 
>   ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://localhost:8080/
> 
> against it.
> 
> You can find the results for chicken 4.5.0 and 4.6.1 (using the same eggs
> versions) at http://parenteses.org/mario/misc/awful-chicken-bench.html

That's an AWFULLY big performance improvement!

Cheers,
Peter
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