# Rails - django speed comparison

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-django-speed-comparison/87307>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 1, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-django-speed-comparison/87307 "2007-03-01T15:53:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![dankelley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@dankelley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dankelley)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-django-speed-comparison/87307/1 "2007-03-01T15:53:43Z")

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I wonder whether anyone here can comment on the disappointing  
benchmarks for Rails, reported a few weeks ago at

[http://www.alrond.com/en/2007/feb/04/in-addition-to-the-test-of-mvc-frameworks/](http://www.alrond.com/en/2007/feb/04/in-addition-to-the-test-of-mvc-frameworks/)

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**Author:** ![dankelley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@dankelley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dankelley)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-django-speed-comparison/87307/2 "2007-03-01T17:24:57Z")

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On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:52 AM, dankelley wrote:

> I wonder whether anyone here can comment on the disappointing  
> benchmarks for Rails, reported a few weeks ago at
> 
> [http://www.alrond.com/en/2007/feb/04/in-addition-to-the-test-of-mvc-](http://www.alrond.com/en/2007/feb/04/in-addition-to-the-test-of-mvc-)  
> frameworks/

Poor results? If those results had been available 1 year ago, nobody  
would ever complain about RoR speed!

Nevertheless, I’ll repeat the mantra: Rails isn’t the fastest  
framework. It’s built to be fast to develop, which is better and  
cheaper for most people than being the most efficient deployment  
platform.

You could, after all, write an Apache module in C to server your  
entire application.

Now _that_ would be _fast_! 🙂

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