[Catalyst] Catalyst vs Rails vs Django Cook off

Christopher H. Laco claco at chrislaco.com
Thu Nov 16 15:39:01 GMT 2006


Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On 11/16/06, Christopher H. Laco <claco at chrislaco.com> wrote:
>> Regardless of whether the test is 'real world', and regardless of
>> whether the frameworks 'were meant to serve more complicated things',
>> Catalyst is slower in this instance. All things being unequal, if I tell
>> my boss we have 3 frameworks to choose from, and one is flexible, and
>> the others are fast, he's going to choose fast every time...even knowing
>> the testing may be faulty. Yes, I know better. He probably does too. But
>> that's how the world works.
> =

> What world is this? The world that doesn't realise programmers are far
> more expensive than hardware? The world where bosses don't realise the
> cost of inflexibility? The ability not to adapt fast is a concern
> that's been hammered long and hard in business circles since forever
> so this nominal boss would have to be really particularly shortsighted
> to blindly choose speed over flexibility.
> =

> Post a rebuttal, suggest better benchmarks, leave a trackback, move
> on. This doesn't seem like getting wound up about.
> =

> Paul

It's a world where PHBs often look at web stats and ask "What the hell
is this slow" a lot more than they ask "Why isn't the system flexible".


-=3DChris

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