SASacho·Nov 22, 2016
Here are the latest benchmarks that the ASP.NET Core team is running to test their stack: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks
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10 sourcesThese are all still on linux. That we're seeing results like we are with dotnet core, nascent and barely over v1 is great.
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I can't wait for the windows results. Those interested should also see https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks
In TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Round 13Some benchmarks can be found here: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks
In ASP.NET Core with Angular2 – TutorialI would learn ASP.NET Core. It's a significant design shift that has some growing pains for the community but will be a big improvement. I like Core because it's easier to build a minimal website (without all the bloat that comes with ASP.NET 4 and previous, like System.Web). Also your application specifies most of the behavior now, rather than relying on IIS configuration.
Performance benchmarks have also been exciting:
https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks
In Microsoft .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Bug BountyThey link to some benchmarks in the article: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks (they're a little hard to read on mobile, but I think the tl;dr is "plenty fast" (or to quote the article: "Our lab runs show that ASP.NET Core is faster than some of our industry peers. We see throughput that is 8x better than Node.js and almost 3x better than Go, on the same hardware. We’re also not done! These improvements are from the changes that we were able to get into the 1.0 product.")
In Announcing .NET Core 1.0The webstack is pretty fast, they're working on getting listed officially in the techempower rankings [1]. Here's an older article from Feb explaining more details. [2]
1. https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks
2. http://web.ageofascent.com/asp-net-core-exeeds-1-15-million-...
In Announcing .NET Core 1.0Doesn't looks like it does: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks/blob/dev/README.md -- look under experimental baselines
In ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served per SecondThe performance improvements that Ben Adams and other ASP.NET Core contributors have made haven't been Windows specific for the most part. Personally, I do most of my perf testing on Windows, but that doesn't mean Linux is completely left out.
Last month, I did some Linux profiling in our perf lab. As part of that, I ran the exact same benchmark shown in that graph on the exact same equipment and got over double the RPS numbers we got back in November much like we did on Windows.
I just updated the https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks/ repo with the linux numbers I got last month since Ben's blog post has brought some increased attention to it. We plan to do a more complete benchmark run soon so we can update more numbers.
In ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served per SecondNetty results are listed on https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks/ for comparison - latest is 2.8 million requests/s. These are the standard Techempower benchmarks.
In ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served per SecondUpdate: Checked with the team, latest Linux benchmark for plaintext with pipelining from January was 928,023 rps, which is a lot closer to the Windows numbers (78%). Updated here: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks/#plain-text-with-http-p...
Linux benchmarks are included here: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks/
The team definitely wants to make ASP.NET Core run fast on Linux, too. The ASP.NET team perf rig runs both Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Windows Server 2012 R2. A lot of the perf enhancements are due to community pull requests, mostly from Ben (author of parent post). The perf work's been discussed a lot on the weekly community standup calls (http://live.asp.net), here's one going over the rig and perf in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O81CAjmOXk&list=PL0M0zPgJ3H...
There's a lot going on right now - both ASP.NET Core and .N
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ET Core are new to Linux, the teams are working on getting 1.0 releases out the door, etc. I expect perf on both Windows and Linux to continue to improve, both before and after 1.0 release. This week on the community standup, Damian said that perf is one area that's lower risk as RTM approaches, and that they're hoping for more improvement there.
And this is very much an open source project, as you can see from the merged pull requests in general (https://github.com/aspnet/KestrelHttpServer/pulls?q=is%3Apr+...) and the fact that Ben (non m-dollar) is battling with a Microsoft dev to be the top contributor. It'd be great to get some more devs with Linux HTTP serving background contributing.
I think I remember that they only posted benchmark updates when there was a significant change. Checking with the team now.
Source: long time ASP.NET groupie, Microsoft employee (until they find out I'm goofing off on HN instead of replying to e-mail).