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• 23 Jun 2010:
  Cometd-2 Throughput vs Latency
  With the imminent release of cometd-2.0.0, it's time to publish some of our own lies, damned lies and benchmarks.  It has be over 2 years since we published the 20,000 reasons that cometd scales and in that time we have completely reworked both the client side and server side of cometd, plus we have moved to Jetty-7.1.4 from eclipse as the main web server for cometd.
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• 17 Jun 2010:
  Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks
  Benchmarks like statistics can be incredibly misleading in ways that are only obvious with detailed analysis. Recently the apache HTTPCore project released some benchmark results whose headline results read as having better performance than jetty in 3 out of 4 scenarios, and that jetty NIO sucked! So is HttpCore really an faster than Jetty and does Jetty NIO suck?
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