Hi Massimo, I too agree that benchmarks, like statistics, can be very deceptive.
The point is comparing just 2 of the frameworks that I'm personally interested in (and I would have imagined had similar startup overheads), i.e. web2py and django, you see web2py getting 686 requests compared to django's 15,346! That's a massive difference and like Michelle's comment, I wonder if there is something that can be learnt from this and some optimization performed that might help with future versions? The numbers certainly look bad for any new person going through the process of choosing a framework to start with. On the memory leak issue, the author says he hit it running the simple "hello world" script test. I imagine he's not creating a class with a self reference as you mentioned for his simple test. Perhaps one of the devs could try simulate the test (the author seems that have released all the test code and setup scripts) and see whether the memory leak issue is indeed present. --
