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FrameworkBenchmarks

Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

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247Mentions
3Explicit recommenders
8.1KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

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Where it is used

  • ASP.NET Core — ASP.NET Core used the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks as a focus for performance work. Microsoft prioritized improving ASP.NET’s performance in these benchmarks. Source
  • Benchmarks for ASP.NET Core — Benchmarks for ASP.NET Core includes scenarios from the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks in its benchmarking suite. Source

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Sorry, I should have been more precise. I am very, very familiar with the TechEmpower benchmarks and I first learned Java around SE 5, right after they switched from 1.x…

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This week on Hacker News

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HN mentions by year247 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-03-28 15:05:31 UTC to 2026-03-24 12:37:38 UTC.

02550751002013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 106 mentions; 2 submissions, 104 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 20 mentions; 0 submissions, 20 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 0 submissions, 14 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 25 mentions; 0 submissions, 25 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 0 submissions, 14 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 0 submissions, 15 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1062104
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC20020
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14014
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC25025
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14014
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15015
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
Welcome to TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks (TFB) If you're new to the project, welcome! Please feel free to ask questions here. We encourage new frameworks and contributors to ask questions. We're here to help! This project provides representative performance measures across a wide field of web application frameworks. With much help from the community, coverage is quite broad and we are happy to broaden it further with contributions. The project presently includes frameworks on many languages including Go, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, C#, F#,Clojure, Groovy, Dart, JavaScript, Erlang, Haskell, Scala, Perl, Lua, C, and others. The current tests exercise plaintext responses, JSON serialization, database reads and writes via the object-relational mapper (ORM), collections, sorting, server-side templates, and XSS counter-measures. Future tests will exercise other components and greater computation. Read more and see the results of our tests on cloud and physical hardware. For descriptions of the test types that we run, see the test requirements section. If you find yourself in a directory or file that you're not sure what the purpose is, checkout our file structure in our documentation, which will briefly explain the use of relevant directories and files. Quick Start Guide To get started developing you'll need to install docker or see our Quick Start Guide using vagrant Clone TFB. $ git clone https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks.git Change directories $ cd FrameworkBenchmarks Run a test. $ ./tfb --mode verify --test gemini Explanation of the ./tfb script The run script is pretty wordy, but each and every flag is required. If you are using windows, either adapt the docker command at the end of the ./tfb shell script (replacing ${SCRIPT_ROOT} with /c/path/to/FrameworkBenchmarks), or use vagrant. The command looks like this: docker run -it --rm --network tfb -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v [FWROOT]:/FrameworkBenchmarks techempower/tfb [ARGS] -it tells docker to run this in 'interactive' mode and simulate a TTY, so that ctrl+c is propagated. --rm tells docker to remove the container as soon as the toolset finishes running, meaning there aren't hundreds of stopped containers lying around. --network=tfb tells the container to join the 'tfb' Docker virtual network The first -v specifies which Docker socket path to mount as a volume in the running container. This allows docker commands run inside this container to use the host container's docker to create/run/stop/remove containers. The second -v mounts the FrameworkBenchmarks source directory as a volume to share with the container so that rebuilding the toolset image is unnecessary and any changes you make on the host system are available in the running toolset container. techempower/tfb is the name of toolset container to run A note on Windows Docker expects Linux-style paths. If you cloned on your C:\ drive, then [ABS PATH TO THIS DIR] would be /c/FrameworkBenchmarks. Docker for Windows understands /var/run/docker.sock even though that is not a valid path on Windows, but only when using Linux containers (it doesn't work with Windows containers and LCOW). Docker Toolbox may not understand /var/run/docker.sock, even when using Linux containers - use at your own risk. Quick Start Guide (Vagrant) Get started developing quickly by utilizing vagrant with TFB. Git, Virtualbox and vagrant are required. Clone TFB. $ git clone https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks.git Change directories $ cd FrameworkBenchmarks/deployment/vagrant Build the vagrant virtual machine $ vagrant up Run a test $ vagrant ssh $ tfb --mode verify --test gemini Add a New Test Either on your computer, or once you open an SSH connection to your vagrant box, start the new test initialization wizard. vagrant@TFB-all:~/FrameworkBenchmarks$ ./tfb --new This will walk you through the entire process of creating a new test to include in the suite. Resources Official Documentation Our official documentation can be found in the wiki. If you find any errors or areas for improvement within the docs, feel free to open an issue in this repo. Live Results Results of continuous benchmarking runs are available in real time here. Data Visualization If you have a results.json file that you would like to visualize, you can do that here. You can also attach a runid parameter to that url where runid is a run listed on tfb-status like so: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=fd07b64e-47ce-411e-8b9b-b13368e988c6. If you want to visualize them or compare different results files on bash, here is an unofficial plaintext results parser Contributing The community has consistently helped in making these tests better, and we welcome any and all changes. Reviewing our contribution practices and guidelines will help to keep us all on the same page. The contribution guide can be found in the TFB documentation. Join in the conversation in the Discussions tab, on Twitter, or chat with us on Freenode at #techempower-fwbm.
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What Hacker News says

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I'm open to recommendations for systems similar to Travis-CI but supporting Windows! Having some type of windows CI would really help bring windows uspport up to par EDIT: Actually, let me just link everyone to github: Here are the windows compatibility issues - https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues?q=... Here is the specific issue asking for advice on what CI we should use to support windows: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/10...
In Techempower Web Framework Benchmarks Round 10
It's getting there fast. We still need some niceties like hot code reload for the server, but experiments like [0] are on the way. I'd love to see Rust and Elixir perform well too for the next rounds! I recommend you to read the nim code used for the benchmark [1] [2] [3] [4], and if you like what you see, to start with the Nim tutorial [5]. [0]: https://github.com/transfuturist/outlet [1]: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... [2]: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... [3]: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... [4]: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... [5]: http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html
In Techempower Web Framework Benchmarks Round 10

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