Speaking of performance, has anyone tried the new HotSpot engine from Sun? I
was going to try installing it on the JRun JRE to see if I get better
servlet performance from it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: Performance
> > Hi
> >
> > Can anybody possibly direct me to any information, or give me their
> comments
> > regarding the performance and volume capability of Java Servlets as
> compared
> > to ASP?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ben
> >
>
> You should grab yourself a load tester, like the one at
> www.pureit.se/pureload and see for
> yourself.
>
> In tests I have made ASP's have never outperformed Servlets. For simple
> things like just
> sending HTML back to the client Servlets are faster.
> With equivalent DB requests ASP's and servlets tend to perform similarly
> well although I never
> managed to get an ASP within 10% of the equiv servlet's performance.
>
> Flexibility is everything. There are so many things you can do directly in
> Java that you can't in ASP VB
> or JScript that even if the performance of servlets was worse (and it
isn't)
> then servlets would be a step
> up.
>
> One area where Servlets win out is footprint. ASP's need to be interpreted
> each time they are run, each request
> is handled as a separate process. VB is not a very efficient language for
> this to work efficiently.
> Servlets have a small code size, each one sits there as one instance
> (SingleThreadModel aside) and modern
> JIT's give you nearly the performance of native code in a lot of
instances.
>
> Well written servlets tend to run ok whereever they live. I have tested
> servlets written with Symantec Cafe under NT
> using the servlet runner, then deployed them to JRun running behind IIS on
> NT with no pain at all.
> I then deployed them to JRun behind an Apache server running on NT, no
pain,
> Apache with JRun on Linux no pain,
> Apache with JServ on Linux again no pain. These servlets are production
> servlets and not simple ones destined for the
> scrap heap. Try that with any ASP.
>
> Just a question, has anyone ever tried to chain ASP's together?
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Andy Bailey
>
> PS I have developed web apps using both ASP's and Servlet/JSP's and as far
> as I am concerned there is no comparison
> in the end
>
>
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