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Subject: Re: couchdb's ruby libraries are hampered by Net:HTTP slowness
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:36:29 -0600
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On Oct 28, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Chris Anderson wrote:

>
> The rfuzz client is fast, but it's designed to be picky. Once I saw it
> raise an exception against amazon.com

that is quite true.

>
>
> Also, I second the interest in
> http://github.com/jfairbairn/fasthttp/tree/eventmachine
>
> as I wrote on Ben's blog,
>
> I've been thinking that the CouchDB project should start collecting
> benchmarks, and integrate them into the build so we can start keeping
> stats.
>
> It's a big job, but starts with little things like putting  
> benchmarks on github.

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