On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Adi wrote:
> [OT: already posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], just thought people here might have
> suggestions, comments, etc]
>
> I am thinking about writing the XS glue for the apache bench tool (ab). The
> ab code as it is, is not very flexible, but it is damn fast. If I
> implemented it as a perl XS module, I could add the flexibility into a nice
> OO package.
>
> Is there any interest in such a module? Could it fit in with LWP somehow?
> I have not tried out LWPng yet - does it use XS code to speed up requests
> much faster than LWP?
>
> At our company we need to write a benchmarking suite, and LWP fits our needs
> perfectly except for the fact that its just not fast enough. It would be
> perfect if we could integrate ab with LWP. So, just wanting to get general
> feedback from the LWP community on whether such software would be useful to
> others.
Adi, I've already implemented a part of the thing you are talking about.
At least the core of it. At this point I've the framework for benchmarking
suites and I invoke ab directly and then I have the module that process
the results and print the nice output. No manual processing anymore.
Replacing ab binary with Perl API to the library is one of the things I'd
really like to have in this benchmarking suite.
Grab the package from:
http://stason.org/work/modules/Apache-Benchmark-0.01.tar.gz
And if you like the way it's implemented it would be really cool to work
on the further development together.
I wrote this software mainly for the book writing, since I'd to run
hundreds of tests and it wasn't impossible to get advanced and avoiding
errors by having the work done manually. But if you look at the TODO list,
there are a few cool ideas for a future extensions that will be very
useful for some users.
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