"Jim Freeze" <jim / freeze.org> wrote in message news:20021005093744.A71192 / freeze.org... > So, there it is. Modruby is doing nothing and is 41% slower > than php for the test cases given. Could this be a configuration issue? If you bother, I'd be interested to hear about similar timings for Ruby/FastCGI http://fenris.codedogs.ca/~eli/fastcgi.html There are two versions: a C interfaced and a pure Ruby version. It would also be interesting to know the difference between Ruby and PHP when discounting the startup time. Mikkel