On 2/2/07, Cutter (CFRelated) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I have to agree that it is apples and oranges. If both servers were > running the same PHP application, or the same ColdFusion application, > concurrently, then you could properly call it a benchmark. Since one app > is PHP and one app is ASP then, to me, the benchmark isn't on IIS vs > Apache, but on PHP vs ASP (which again is apples to oranges as it's in > two different languages on two different web servers).
Sorry, you're wrong cutter. Part of your mistake is that this test is /not/ comparing IIS to Apache. That is what I was interested in finding, but this benchmark is the closest I could find. The question these guys were asking was, "What is faster, ASP/IIS/Windows or PHP/Apache/Linux?" They put together a valid benchmark to test that question. They even went as far as removing the variable of the database by testing a bunch of different databases. All benchmarks have problems, but a generally accepted way to compare to objects is to put them both in an identical test scenario, where the only variable is the object being tested. That is what these guys did. Here's another example from Toms Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/ You guys would probably say that trying to compare Windows XP to Vista is comparing apples to oranges. I'll say it again. That's exactly the point!! If someone wants to find out the difference between two things, like AMD vs. Intel, or SQL Server vs. Oracle, or ColdFusion vs. ASP, there's gotta be a way to test it right? Its called Benchmarking. If you want an example of bad benchmarks, check out this site: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp These guys test databases, but they don't remove external variables. The top 10 list is made up of widely varied hardware systems of widely varying strength and cost. That is not a valid benchmark, and their results are useless. -- My Sites: http://www.techfeed.net/blog/ http://www.cfquickdocs.com/ http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268515 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
