Yes, but I wanted to see a test that more or less close to what's used in 
real projects. Express usually don't work in isolation, usually it uses 
some sort of database. And request seems like a good approximation for DB 
connection.

On Friday, 24 January 2014 07:33:59 UTC+4, tjholowaychuk wrote:
>
> plus this benchmark doesn't really test express, it tests outbound 
> requests AND express :p so that's really misleading 
>
>
> On Thursday, 23 January 2014 01:57:58 UTC-8, Alexey Petrushin wrote:
>>
>> I ran a benchmark for Ruby on Rails and Express.js using `siege` - and 
>> Express for some reason performed worse than Rails.
>>
>> How benchmark works - application query some text from remote HTTP 
>> service (service delays each
>> request for 200ms) and render HTML page using that text.
>>
>> *Results*
>>
>> - transactions rate are the same (already strange, I expected node.js to 
>> outperform rails by at least a couple of times)
>> - average response time in rails is 0.8s and in express 4s (siege doesn't 
>> show average time it in the report, but it can be seen from its logs).
>>
>> *Details*
>>
>> The remote service with delay (sipmle node.js server) 
>> https://github.com/alexeypetrushin/web-frameworks-benchmarks/blob/master/lorem-ipsum.js
>>
>> Express.js 
>> https://github.com/alexeypetrushin/web-frameworks-benchmarks/blob/master/expressjs/app.js
>>
>> Rails (with Puma server) 
>> https://github.com/alexeypetrushin/web-frameworks-benchmarks/blob/master/rails/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb
>>
>> Siege command `siege -b -t10s -c100 http://localhost:3000`
>>
>> Full code and instructions how to run 
>> https://github.com/alexeypetrushin/web-frameworks-benchmarks
>> All application has been run in production mode.
>>
>> How is that possible and where is the bug in this benchmark, what's I'm 
>> doing wrong?
>>
>

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