So I was talking about the simple scaling tests I ran against Seaside and Ruby on Rails on the Smalltalk IRC channel, and Chris Petrilli suggested that I start up the simple Rails server ( the one mentioned here ) using this command line:

script/server RAILS_ENV=production

So I ran the same simple WAPT test again, and instead of getting 7-8 pages per second, I got 8-9. Whoo :)

Rails is certainly a step up in the productivity sense over the typical Java framework, but - as I showed in this video, it's nothing like the productivity offered by Seaside. Now, add in the fact that Seaside is way, way faster and more scalable? Time to give Smalltalk a shot.

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