On Thu, May 12, 2005 6:46 am, Ted Husted said: > If the decision between approaches is not obvious, then do the first > interation of your application using both, and compare the results for > yourself.
I don't know what kind of environment you work in, but if I suggested writing an application twice just to determine which way we should have done it in the first place, I'd get laughed all the way back to my office :) LOL That being said, I don't at all disagree with your underlying point... Benchmarks you don't do yourself aren't useless, but your results could vary so widely from them depending on what your doing that you can't make a decision based soley on such benchmarks. > If the decision is not important enough to justify doing one > interation twice, then you might as well flip a coin and move on :) Interestingly, we had a rather good debate around here recently about whether to use JSF or Struts for a new application... we ultimtely decided to not use JSF at this time (while keeping an eye on it for the future), but one of the issues that came up was CPU utilization... The hosting environment we use here charges us back based on CPU utilization, so this thread struck a chord with me. We ultimately didn't use that factor in our decision-making process, but if we had some existing benchmarks comparing the two it would have been helpful anyway. I don't know how common CPU utilization chargeback is, but it's a concern for us here. Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
