From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:35:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] gitweb: use highlight's shebang detection
Message-ID: <1474756557.3745593.735971977.2A054EBA@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <946807ff-1570-2d81-1026-06529164f8ef@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016, at 09:21 AM, Jakub Narębski wrote:
> W dniu 24.09.2016 o 00:15, Jakub Narębski pisze:
> 
> Sidenote: this way of benchmarking of gitweb falls between two ways of
> doing a benchmark.
> 
> The first method is to simply run gitweb as a standalone script, passing
> its parameters in CGI environment variables; just like the test suite
> does it.  You would 'time' / 'times' it a few times, drop outliers, and
> take average or a median.  With this method you don't even need to set
> up a web server.
> 
> The second is to use a specialized program to benchmark the server-side
> of a web page, for example 'ab' (ApacheBench), httperf, curl-loader
> or JMeter.  The first one is usually distributed together with Apache
> web server, so you probably have it installed already.  Those tools
> provide timing statistics.

Good to know. Thanks.