Re: [OT] Microsoft claim 267% better peak performance than linux?

From: Felipe Alfaro Solana
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 08:18:08 EST


On Sep 28, 2004, at 14:35, Norbert van Nobelen wrote:

The document shows some interesting points though:
- They describe what they did to make redhat/apache perform better
- ISAPI is pretty fast compared to CGI (Didn't apache recently release a
programming interface which is cross platform and does something like
this too?)

Of course ISAPI is faster than CGI. The same happens with NSAPI. However, both are proprietary, have a steep learning curve, and usually, xSAPI extensions run on the same address space as the Web server, improving performance but decreasing stability. However, CGI runs as a separate process which adds a lot of overhead. There are solutions like FastCGI with less overhead and that allow persistence (the executable CGI is not destroyed, but stays in memory waiting for future requests).

MS commissioned studies are totally useless: they only probe what MS wants. If MS wants us to believe earth is flat, a MS commissioned study will reveal so.

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