how is padrino faster than sinatra when padrino is a layer on sinatra?

Consider that for example sinatra check fo static files and log request (also for production env) or try to check layout (also if not exist) for each request.

Nothing that cannot be resolved with few code, but as we say in our readme we compare frameworks without special optimizations.

would be interesting (and matter of discussion) include Django and others frameworks in the benchmark…:)…

From my experience, Rails is faster than Django in my real-world test (this was with both in production mode under Apache, rails w/ mod_rails, django w/ mod_python, doing the same task displaying a simple gallery of images, pulling image filenames from MySQL). I’d love to see some benchmarks to prove me wrong though.

i used to go gaga over performance numbers until I deployed actual apps. the reality is you rarely get the same performance numbers in production because of the latency of the internet. for example, locally i can serve a static page with nginx at around 7000 req/sec. when i test this on my VPS, i get 600 req/sec. neither the CPU nor memory is maxed out, it’s just the nature of the web. you can drive a Ferrari, but when you’re on the freeway with traffic, you will not be faster than a corolla. this framework looks like a keeper though.

Yep, Mark I agree.

From our readme:

no one on our team is a big fan of benchmarks since they can often be misleading and real world usage is generally quite different.