[Catalyst] Catalyst vs Rails vs Django Cook off

Christopher H. Laco claco at chrislaco.com
Thu Nov 16 15:42:00 GMT 2006


Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> 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

And a world where customers don't bitch that your framework is
inflexibly, but will bitch if it's slow.

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