[Catalyst] Catalyst benchmark 5.7 vs 5.8 - new test

[Toby Corkindale]

Tomas Doran wrote:
> Toby Corkindale wrote:
>> It's interesting to note the headline figures have 5.71 performing 316 
>> tps, vs 5.80 making only 283 tps.
> 
> The very important thing you haven't noted (unless I missed it) is what 
> perl version this benchmark was conducted under.
> 
> Some benchmarking was done before 5.8 was released, and it showed that 
> Catalyst 5.7 was (marginally) quicker on perl 5.8 and that Catalyst 5.8 
> was (marginally) quicker on perl 5.10 :)
> 
> So I'd be very interested to see the benchmark repeated with two 
> different perls, giving 4 results to compare and contrast.

Catalyst 5.80 on Perl 5.8.8, same VM hardware, same test app, testing 
methodology, but against Debian 4.5 rather than Ubuntu 9.04.
Result: 191 tps.
(ie. Significantly slower than catalyst 5.80 on Perl 5.10, which was 282 
tps)

-Toby