RE: FLASH: ANN: Generator 2, new versions

[.redstar.]

John,


Thanks for the explanation, perhaps you could suggest that the Generator

team revise the text that is currently online as it will clearly induce in

error.

I know the dust might still be settling on other pages but after all the

detail that is given in the performance test another area that could be more

informative is the pricing structure for the 'GrownUp' Edition of Generator.

Just saying it start's at xxxUSD and giving an email address isn't much

info.

Anyway if the developer edition doesn't watermark the produced files then it

is a good deal.

For those that might be considering if it's worth the price some simple math

:

The available docs on this product say that it only generates one graphic at

a time, OK.

>From the FigLeaf study we can obtain an overestimate of 2 seconds to produce

a complex database dependent graphic on a 1 processor 128Mb machine. This

boils down to the fact that under these conditions the developer edition can

produce in the range of 1800 graphics per hour. So we need to know how many

users this solution can accommodate without degrading too much. If every

request to the server triggers a Generator request (worst case scenario) and

each user views each page for 30 seconds on average, then we have 120 page

requests per user/hour.

Gathering all this info tells us that a site with an expected value of 20

users per hour should, with 95% confidence level, start showing some signs

of degradation.

Relaxing the conditions a bit and adapting to real world conditions I think

we can have this edition serving content for a group of medium sized sites

with an expected average 'Generator' page request of around 2400 per hour.

For those that still remember poison distributions  you'll see that this

value is quite good, just check the probability for 4800 page requests per

hour, a value that would choke the server.


Conclusion :

Not to bad for the price, not bad at all.


.redstar.



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