[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst vs Rails vs Django Cook off

[David Morel]

Le 16 janv. 07 à 11:27, Daniel McBrearty a écrit :
> Fair enough. So why not try to design a benchmark in such a way that
> those techniques can be exploited? What is the simplest set of tests
> that has some meaning for you?

I don't know :) I'm thinking benchmarking simple things don't work.  
Pushing this a bit further, I realized I didn't really care about  
speed as long as the apps are resonably fast. I don't really care if  
a framework gives me 150 hits/s and another one 130. Maybe what  
matters in the end is the resources you have to allocate (financially  
speaking, which implies how many servers, elcetricity, developer  
time, etc) to a given project. This implies observing the projects on  
the long term, and encompasses such concerns as application  
lifecycle, security (how much did the downtime to plug that hole cost  
us ?), extensibility, developer turnover ("Bye boss, had enough of  
your php toys"), etc. Don't you think ?

I don't know of anyone wishing to write the same app twice, or a  
client willing to pay two teams of developers to produce the same app  
in two different languages, so I guess the comparison cannot be done :)

Am I a would-be suit -or moron, pick one ? Of course it would be nice  
to say : Catalyst is the best AND fastest framework there is. But  
IMHO it's not that important (considering establishing such a fact is  
nearly impossible). I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that I can use  
the whole of CPAN at great speed, and I think that matters more.

David Morel <david.morel at amakuru.net>
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