[Catalyst] Catalyst "speed test"

[Matt S Trout]

Szabo Peter wrote:
> 
> -- Does our test code we use Catalyst and other Perl modules the right way?
>    Should we replace certain modules with better, faster alternatives?
>    Should we use the modules a different way to make it faster?

You're using Class::DBI, which is (a) nothing to do with Catalyst, (b) 
known to be the single slowest perl ORM in existence.

You're also using a Loader, which means your CDBI setup is almost 
certainly not optimally configured thus reducing your speed still further.

And finally, Class::DBI is nothing to do with Catalyst.

This is ... silly in the extreme. Try benchmarking like-for-like - e.g. 
plain FastCGI+DBIx::Class versus Catalyst+TT+DBIx::Class (Class::DBI is 
strongly recommended against by all of the Catalyst core team these days).