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You’ve got to see for yourself this web server Zed Shaw is working on. He’s writing a competitor to Webrick which is serving at ten times its speed. A recent release is Mongrel 0.1.1. The API is still coming together, but the basics are etched.

Here’s some “meaningless” benchmarks from ruby-talk. Each requests the result of a “Hello”-puts’ing simple script.

 [Mongrel]
 % ab -n 10000 http://localhost:3000/test
 Requests per second:    660.20 [#/sec] (mean)

 [Webrick]
 % ab -n 10000 http://localhost:4000/test
 Requests per second:    37.90 [#/sec] (mean)

 [CherryPy]
 % ab -n 10000 http://localhost:8080/
 Requests per second:    164.92 [#/sec] (mean)

 [LuaWeb]
 % ab -n 10000 http://localhost:1080/hello
 Requests per second:    948.32 [#/sec] (mean)

 [httpd]
 % ab -n 10000 http://localhost/test.txt
 Requests per second:    1218.47 [#/sec] (mean)

 [lighttpd]
 % ab -n 10000 http://localhost:8888/test.txt
 Requests per second:    3652.30 [#/sec] (mean) 

Wow, LuaWeb is quick! For more on the server versions used and all that, see the thread for yourself.