Express vs Sinatra Benchmarks
So I have been setting up benchmark scripts for Express today, and so far some of the results have been quite interesting! The numbers shown should be taken lightly, however they consistently show that Express is quite fast.
If you are interested in benchmarking your own web applications you might want to read my last article ApacheBench Gnuplot Graphing Benchmarks.
All of the following benchmarks were generated using ApacheBench with a concurrency of 50 and performs 2000 requests. Keep in mind that Thin is used to serve Sinatra requests.
Express vs Sinatra
For those who dont know Express is a NodeJS framework inspired by Ruby’s Sinatra. Below we have the benchmark results for a typical “Hello World” response, which include nodejs benchmarks without the overhead of features provided by Express:
Haml.js vs Ruby Haml
Next up is my JavaScript Haml implementation. Below are the results of running Express & haml.js vs Sinatra & Haml. Both serve a layout template, as well as a page specific template.
Sass.js vs Ruby Sass
Finally we have JavaScript Sass vs the regular Ruby implementation packaged with haml. Both implementations serve the same 80 line stylesheet.
Stay tuned for more benchmarks!
