Simon Willison’s Weblog

Speedometer 3.0: The Best Way Yet to Measure Browser Performance. The new browser performance testing suite, released as a collaboration between Blink, Gecko, and WebKit. It’s fun to run this in your browser and watch it rattle through 580 tests written using a wide variety of modern JavaScript frameworks and visualization libraries.

# 12th March 2024, 4:26 am / benchmarks, javascript, web-performance

Dojo 1.4.1 vs jQuery 1.4.2pre on Taskspeed. John Resig’s reponse. When JavaScript libraries compete on performance, everybody wins.

# 29th January 2010, 2:19 pm / benchmarks, dojo, javascript, john-resig, jquery, performance

Socket Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python. A comparison of eight different asynchronous networking frameworks in Python. Tornado comes out on top in most of the benchmarks, but the post is most interesting for the direct comparison of simple code examples for each of the frameworks.

# 22nd December 2009, 10:34 pm / async, benchmarks, dieselweb, eventio, eventlet, gevent, orbited, python, stackless, tornado, twisted

PostgreSQL 8.3 vs. 8.2—a simple benchmark. Stefan Kaltenbrunner reports a 2.2x speed increase for PostgreSQL 8.3 compared to 8.2 for a relatively simple benchmark.

# 12th December 2007, 12:42 am / benchmarks, postgresql, stefankaltenbrunner

ErlyWeb vs. Ruby on Rails EC2 Performance Showdown. ErlyWeb’s peak response rate beats Rails by 47x, albeit with a hugely simplified benchmark. More interesting than the results is the idea of using EC2 for benchmarking on identical simulated hardware.

# 10th December 2007, 3:27 pm / amazon, benchmarks, ec2, erlang, erlyweb, performance, rails, virtualisation, yarivsadan