The document discusses web framework benchmarks by TechEmpower, which have been conducted since 2013, covering 21 languages and 100 frameworks. It highlights Perl's poor performance in these benchmarks, emphasizing the importance of such comparisons for developers to choose the most suitable frameworks. The author also mentions their success in a recent competition, ISUCON4, using EC2 for testing.

1. YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2014 LT
Masahiro Nagano / @kazeburo
(translated by @laouji)
A Report on
Web Framework Benchmarks
and Perl’s Performance

2. Techempower
Web Framework Benchmarks
• Techempower has been posting it since 2013
• 21 languages, 100 web framework benchmarks
• Scores are updated every so often. Currently on
Round 9
• The source code and benchmark tools are posted on
Github, and anyone can make a pull request to add
or update tests for frameworks

3. http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

4. Types of web applications tested
• JSON Serialization
• Single Query
• Multiple Query
• Fortunes
• Data Updates
• Plaintext

5. Run Environments for the Benchmarks
• EC2
• Physical Machine
– Core i7 2600K
– dual-Xeon E5-2660v2

6. How Perl is Performing

7. Crashing & Burning
How Perl is Performing

9. Not Even Running!!

11. Half of PHP!!1

12. Something needs to be done...

13. Oh yeah speaking of benchmarks...

14. ISUCON4

15. BTW

16. I won 1st prize last round

17. So I got serious

18. *using EC2 c3.xlarge

19. *using EC2 c3.xlarge

20. Here’s what I did

23. Why Web Framework Benchmarks
are important
• Comparing performance between different web
application frameworks helps devs pick which
framework is most suitable
• A way to showcase optimum settings and code

24. So if you make a WAF,
make a pull request!