I'll also second that, in addition to the methodological flaws I see, they don't do any testing of running Django under PyPy, which has seen significant speed boosts in the wild.
Alex On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org>wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Michał Nowotka <mmm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r4 django > performance is > > really bad comparing to other popular web frameworks. Are there any > plans to > > change this situation? > > First, there are some very serious problems with those "benchmarks" -- > they aren't really comparing apples to apples at all. There's some > interesting things to dig into with that work, but stating > categorically that this "proves" that Django is "slow" is... a > stretch. > > Second, raw speed isn't everything. Scalability, ease of use, > suitability, and many other factors play into the decisions we make > about technology. If we only cared about raw speed, we'd all still be > writing assembly. > > Finally, of course we care about performance, and we're constantly > monitoring and improving Django's speed (see > https://github.com/jacobian/djangobench, for example). If you'd like > to help, there's plenty of low-hanging fruit, feel free to dive in. > > But let's not pay *too* much attention to a badly-designed study with > unclear goals and intentions. > > Jacob > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero GPG Key fingerprint: 125F 5C67 DFE9 4084 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
