Quixote test code for The Great Web Framework Shootout

Placed in the public domain.
Neil Schemenauer, 2012

Synopsis

This code was tested with Quixote 2.8b1 and Flask 0.9-dev (git commit 04bb720d3813c8cfe3ae46d2fb85dbc9a03a9b70).

Setup

The easiest way to test this application is with mod_scgi. The following Apache directive will enable the SCGI application:

SCGIMount /quixote 127.0.0.1:3000

Run "python quixote_app.py" to start the application server.

To run Flask with mod_scgi, I created a quick WSGI adaptor for my 'scgi' package. You can download it from:

http://python.ca/nas/python/wsgi_handler.py

It should be put in the 'scgi' package directory. The script to run the Flask app is simple (defaults to listening on port 3000):

from flask_app import app
from scgi.wsgi_handler import run
if __name__ == '__main__':
    run(app)

Results

I don't have a EC2 setup to test with so I compared the Flask version on my workstation. Flask is fairly similar in spirit to Quixote. Quixote's templating system should be faster.

The "Hello World" String Test

Framework	Reqs/sec
Quixote/SCGI (2.8b1)	3933
Flask/SCGI (0.9-dev)	3089
Flask/WSGI (0.9-dev)	1757

The "Hello World" Template Test

Framework	Reqs/sec
Quixote/SCGI (2.8b1)	3929
Flask/SCGI (0.9-dev)	2657
Flask/WSGI (0.9-dev)	1373

The "Hello World" Template Test With DB Query

Framework	Reqs/sec
Quixote/SCGI (2.8b1)	2616
Flask/SCGI (0.9-dev)	1729
Flask/WSGI (0.9-dev)	866