A simple benchmark of CodeIgnitor versus CakePhp (and Symfony).¹ While the timings describe a trivial amount of code, they show the basic cost of loading the frameworks.

1. I hate typing out ‘Symfony’. It’s not clever, it’s not funny, it’s just spelled wrong ↩

A comparison of desktop memory usage, pitting KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and Plain XFree against each other in the battle for the smallest footprint.

[stars: 4] Nokia 5300 MP3 phone. I love the form factor, display, and the menus are a solid extension of Nokia’s previous phones. The camera and MP3 player are uninspired, but the FM tuner is surprisingly good. The phone also comes with a mSD slot, a USB2 cable, and supports USB2 FS. For $30 this is a great geek phone.

Accelerate Your Mac
Rosetta is amazing. (see earlier post on limitations of the Rosetta emulator - it’s a G3 emulator basically - will not run Altivec code, etc. and performance isn’t going to be as good as native code, but most Mac apps will run on a G3.-Mike) The tests I’ve run, both app tests and benchmarks, peg it at between a dual 800 MHz G4 and and a dual 2 G5 depending on what you are doing.