ngx_mruby vs lua-nginx-module

lua-bench

$ /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -c 100 -n 100000 http://127.0.0.1/lua

Server Software:        nginx/1.4.3
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /lua
Document Length:        13 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   7.197 seconds
Complete requests:      100000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      16900000 bytes
HTML transferred:       1300000 bytes
Requests per second:    13894.30 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       7.197 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.072 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          2293.10 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.3      0      12
Processing:     2    7   0.8      7      25
Waiting:        1    7   0.8      7      25
Total:          5    7   0.8      7      25

lua-bench-keepalive

$ /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -k -c 100 -n 100000 http://127.0.0.1/lua

Server Software:        nginx/1.4.3
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /lua
Document Length:        13 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   2.691 seconds
Complete requests:      100000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Keep-Alive requests:    99006
Total transferred:      17395030 bytes
HTML transferred:       1300000 bytes
Requests per second:    37156.92 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       2.691 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.027 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          6311.97 [Kbytes/sec] received

mruby-bench

$ /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -c 100 -n 100000 http://127.0.0.1/mruby

Server Software:        nginx/1.4.3
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /mruby
Document Length:        13 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   5.148 seconds
Complete requests:      100000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      12900000 bytes
HTML transferred:       1300000 bytes
Requests per second:    19423.42 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       5.148 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.051 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          2446.90 [Kbytes/sec] received

mruby-bench-keepalive

$ /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -k -c 100 -n 100000 http://127.0.0.1/mruby

Server Software:        nginx/1.4.3
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /mruby
Document Length:        13 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   1.991 seconds
Complete requests:      100000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Keep-Alive requests:    99001
Total transferred:      13395005 bytes
HTML transferred:       1300000 bytes
Requests per second:    50227.56 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1.991 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.020 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          6570.30 [Kbytes/sec] received

nginx.conf

        location /lua {
            content_by_lua 'ngx.say("hello lworld")';
        }

        location /mruby {
            mruby_content_handler_code 'Nginx.rputs "hello mworld\n"';
        }

@matsumoto-r It's hugely important - did you use Lua or LuaJIT?