Preliminary ruby 1.8.6 vs ruby 1.9.0 benchmarks for Ramaze with webrick and mongrel, using benchmark/test.rb.
More ruby 1.8.6 benchmarks comparing webrick, mongrel and evented_mongrel available on the benchmarks page.
$ ruby -v ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [universal-darwin9.0]
$ ruby1.9 -v ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-25 revision 14709) [i686-darwin9.1.0]
for adapter in webrick mongrel; do echo "===== $adapter =====" for ruby in ruby ruby1.9; do echo "=== $ruby ===" for i in 1 2 3; do echo " `$ruby benchmark/test.rb $adapter`" done echo done done
350.4 req/s (2.9 ms/req) 344.6 req/s (2.9 ms/req) 352.0 req/s (2.8 ms/req)
567.6 req/s (1.8 ms/req) 564.3 req/s (1.8 ms/req) 568.8 req/s (1.8 ms/req)
1829.0 req/s (0.5 ms/req) 1766.5 req/s (0.6 ms/req) 1613.9 req/s (0.6 ms/req)
2293.3 req/s (0.4 ms/req) 2241.6 req/s (0.4 ms/req) 2227.9 req/s (0.4 ms/req)