Listening to David's RailsConf Europe 2007 keynote, I've learned that he's going to a release a beta version soonish. He's asked me to do some benchmarking, comparing the performance of edge Rails to the latest stable branches. Here's a chart:
stable11 is the current svn version of branch 1-1-stable, stable12 is current version of 1-2-stable branch and edge is the current version of Rails trunk. Numbers are requests per second (measured on my MacBook during David's talk).
If you're a numbers type, these are the numbers:
page c1 totalc2 total c1 r/sc2 r/s c1 ms/rc2 ms/r c1/c2 empty 0.947091.05049 1055.9951.9 0.951.05 0.90 welcome 1.228781.34536 813.8743.3 1.231.35 0.91 recipes 1.372141.50364 728.8665.1 1.371.50 0.91 my_recipes 1.369581.49912 730.2667.1 1.371.50 0.91 show 3.469444.27918 288.2233.7 3.474.28 0.81 cat 3.726754.58788 268.3218.0 3.734.59 0.81 cat_page5 3.856244.68700 259.3213.4 3.864.69 0.82 letter 3.699704.54140 270.3220.2 3.704.54 0.81 all requests 19.6697123.49406 406.7340.5 2.462.94 0.84 GC statistics c1 totalc2 total c1 #gcc2 #gc c1 gc%c2 #gc% c1/c2 2.276573.09640 21.025.0 11.5713.18 0.74c1: 1.2-stable, c2: edge, r/s: requests per second, ms/r: milliseconds per request
I haven't had time to analyze the code, but it seems that anything loading a large number of active record objects takes a rather large performance hit.
I hope we can improve performance before 2.0 gets finally released. Unfortunately, I have almost no time to work on this. However, if anyone has a performance patch, I can look into the it.
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