A few years ago I've started the Apache::Benchmark project to help me to 
cope with numerous benchmark tests I wanted to run for the book. I've 
never released this because I didn't have time to finish it. Now I'm 
thinking to revive it again and develop it based on Apache::Test, 
reusing its auto-configuration and start/stop/etc facilities.

The idea is to develop a framework:

- to run tests based on Benchmark.pm to compare performance of various 
code snippets, under various configurations.
- to run performance tests based on ApacheBench (and other web-bench 
clients)
- to run crash testing, similar to httpd-test flood framework

Doug, do you think we can start it as a sub-project like Apache-Test and 
Apache-Registry under the same root? Later on we can always split it. I 
really want it to be a sub-tree so we can benchmark things without 
installing modperl. That's where being a part of modperl-2.0 tree will 
help a lot, at least during the development period.

or shell we start an official mod_perl sub-projects tree?

I don't feel like trying to build a community of developers somewhere 
outside. Keeping cvs and mailing list... I'd rather re-use the 
infrustructure we have already and let everybody a chance to contribute.

Just like Apache-Test, Apache-Benchmark could be used outside of mod_perl.

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