Hey, I have released the latest Hello World benchmark suite, which you can find at http://www.chamas.com/bench/hello.tar.gz ... Enjoy! A special note to Apache::ASP users: the benchmarks seem to show that for real web pages ( more than Hello World ), Apache::ASP is one of the fastest perl web environments around. You can see this by the way it beats the competition in the h2000 benchmark, which is a 28K web page generated from a heavy template. However, it is a bit slower on the simple "Hello World" benchmark, because it has to set up things like $Server, $Request, & $Response on every request, which is a burden other environments don't have to deal with. It is important to note this difference though, because if what you need it a superfast URL redirector for example, you might want to build that directly with a modperl handler instead of a heavier environment like Apache::ASP. --Josh CHANGES 1) Apache::Registry Hello World 2000 benchmark added, fastest of group, showing perl's raw template rendering power! 2) New XSLT AxKit and Apache::ASP benchmarks with XML::Sablotron DISCLAIMER: Like any benchmarks, these test no more than they test for. Fortunately you have can run them for yourself on YOUR hardware, and recommend any improvements as you see fit to the benchmark suite, or even add some tests for environments not covered already! SPEED NOTES: 1) These were run on a dual proc CPU PIII 450 which seems to have a lower relative bench for the HTML static test than on sincle proc CPU 2) HTML::Embperl v2.x is much faster than 1.3.0 on the h2000 bench, last I remember faster than Apache::ASP, about the same as PHP I decided to run 1.3.0, since its what I get from a CPAN install. 3) HTML::Mason was about as fast as Apache::ASP on the h2000 benchmark, but since 1.x was released, is much slower. BENCHMARK RESULTS hello]# ./bench.pl -time=60 -version Test Name Test File Hits/sec Total Hits Total Time sec/Hits Bytes/Hit ------------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Apache::ASP v2.15 2000 h2000.asp 224.5 13479 hits 60.04 sec 0.004454 28997 byte Apache::Registry v2.01 2000 mod_per h2000.reg 335.0 20102 hits 60.01 sec 0.002985 28178 byte HTML::Embperl v1.3.0 2000 h2000.epl 107.7 6463 hits 60.02 sec 0.009287 28840 byte HTML::Mason v1.03 2000 h2000.mas 82.5 4954 hits 60.02 sec 0.012114 28798 byte mod_caucho JSP 2000 h2000.jsp 315.3 18928 hits 60.03 sec 0.003171 28964 byte mod_php PHP 2000 h2000.php 257.3 15448 hits 60.04 sec 0.003886 28865 byte Template v2.00 Toolkit 2000 h2000.tt 53.7 3223 hits 60.02 sec 0.018621 28888 byte Apache::ASP v2.15 hello.asp 371.9 22324 hits 60.02 sec 0.002689 241 bytes Apache::Dispatch v0.08 handler hello/worl 635.0 38107 hits 60.01 sec 0.001575 196 bytes Apache::ePerl hello.eper 337.3 20239 hits 60.01 sec 0.002965 217 bytes Apache::Registry v2.01 CGI Raw hello_raw. 686.1 41172 hits 60.01 sec 0.001458 52 bytes Apache::Registry v2.01 CGI.pm hello.cgi 449.6 26985 hits 60.02 sec 0.002224 216 bytes Apache::SSI v2.16 hello.shtm 546.6 32802 hits 60.01 sec 0.001829 199 bytes HTML static hello.html 1148.1 50000 hits 43.55 sec 0.000871 311 bytes HTML::Embperl v1.3.0 hello.epl 466.4 27996 hits 60.02 sec 0.002144 220 bytes HTML::Mason v1.03 hello.mas 361.5 21702 hits 60.02 sec 0.002766 197 bytes HTML::Template v2.0 hello.htmp 551.3 33089 hits 60.02 sec 0.001814 198 bytes mod_caucho JSP hello.jsp 835.6 50000 hits 59.84 sec 0.001197 230 bytes mod_include SSI hello.shtm 979.5 50000 hits 51.05 sec 0.001021 198 bytes mod_perl handler hello.benc 831.2 49887 hits 60.02 sec 0.001203 196 bytes mod_php PHP hello.php 716.2 42975 hits 60.01 sec 0.001396 225 bytes mod_speedycgi hello.cgi 294.4 17673 hits 60.03 sec 0.003397 216 bytes Template v2.00 Toolkit hello.tt 509.7 30594 hits 60.02 sec 0.001962 198 bytes Apache::ASP v2.15 XSLT Hello hxslt.xml 218.5 13113 hits 60.00 sec 0.004576 279 bytes AxKit v1.4 XSLT Hello hxslt.xml 200.7 12046 hits 60.01 sec 0.004981 398 bytes Apache Server Header Tokens --------------------------- (Unix) Apache/1.3.14 AxKit/1.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.0.3pl1 Resin/1.2.1 mod_perl/1.24 mod_ssl/2.7.1 PERL Version: 5.00503 JAVA Version: java version "1.3.0" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0) Classic VM (build 1.3.0, J2RE 1.3.0 IBM build cx130-20001124 (JIT enabled: jitc)) Operating System: Linux 2.2.14-9.0 (root@gate) (gcc egcs-2.91.66) #1 2CPU [gate.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]