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 <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Michał Nowotka <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
