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I'm a bit confused about these benchmarks, especially those regarding Hugo. I remember watching a video[0] all the way back in 2015 where Hugo was able to creat

by Xevi 5y ago

I'm a bit confused about these benchmarks, especially those regarding Hugo. I remember watching a video[0] all the way back in 2015 where Hugo was able to create 5000 pages in roughly 6 seconds. It feels odd that it would take more than 13 times as long to build twice the amount of pages now. Considering that the benchmark you linked to was using newer hardware, and a faster version of Hugo. I guess the benchmark itself might be very different, but it still feels like a huge performance drop. Anyway, Elder looks very promising, and I like the idea of using Svelte a lot more than working with Hugo templates. What do you think is the main thing that limit the built time for smaller sites? [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdiDYZ51a2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdiDYZ51a2o

nickreese 5y ago
To be honest, I'm not familiar with the specifics of the benchmark. I was surprised as well. Currently I think the biggest limiter for small sites is that we sequentially fork the processes and wait for each to bootstrap. I'm sure we could eek out a huge gain by rewriting it and optimizing, but at this point it is faster than anything else in the ecosystem and throwing more CPU cores at a problem is cheaper than throwing more development hours at the problem. :)