Dolphin 7 Faster? Prove It.

I am thrilled to hear Dolphin 7 will be faster than 6, even though the alpha version everyone has been using is not apparently optimized. We hear the code improvements and database queries will be much faster in 7. I really hope so.

I am curious, though. How does Boonex know this? I work at a major bank and we have commercial stress test server products that can stress test our site under an assumed heavy load of users. Our typical normal number of concurrent users may be 300 to 400 users. We run a base test with this number of assumed users on our current codebase. Then we run the same test on our proposed new codebase to see the difference. We also crank up the number of users to thousands to see what happens.

I am wondering if Boonex uses any similar commercial products to test their new code. Some of you may even know of some online services which can simulate a high number of concurrent users. Will you suggest some of these service/products to Boonex so maybe we can all see the real difference in speed.

I am not trying to be negatively critical to Boonex. I am just trying to make sure they are seeing the real picture and not merely basing their speed improvements on the end-user experience. The end-user experience may be awesome, but what happens when a more realistic scenario of a few hundred concurrent users start using the site?

I love what Boonex is doing. Let's keep helping them do it even better.