Performance test results

Posted by Adrian Holovaty on July 14, 2006

Some folks benchmarked three Web frameworks: Symfony (PHP), Ruby on Rails and Django. They found Django to be the fastest:

Rails performed much better than Symfony. And Django performed much better than Rails.

Granted, the nature of Web frameworks makes it difficult to make this an apples-to-apples test. But, as the benchmarkers themselves say, "We feel these results, though not the whole picture, offer hints about relative performance between the three frameworks/platforms."

To be honest, these results doesn't come as a surprise to us Django developers. We've been performance-conscious from the very start, and performance concerns guide us at every level -- from the template system to URL parsing to database access. (A good example of how performance-crazy we are is the new USE_I18N setting, unveiled last week, which turns off internationalization overhead if you're not using it.)

Get the word out! How about posting this to del.icio.us and Digging it?

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