performance benchmarking

Paul Jones has taken a look at some performance statistics that Rasmus Lerdorf shared in a recent presentation from some of his tests.

As many of you know, I maintain a series of web framework benchmarks. The project codebase is here and the most recent report is here.

It was with some interest, then, that I viewed Rasmus Lerdorf’s slides on the subject of performance benchmarking.

I’m beginning to think there’s something unexpected or unexamined in his testing [...]