Mixed Workload

The Mixed Workload profile measures overall framework performance under a diverse, realistic request mix that exercises multiple code paths simultaneously — baseline request handling, JSON serialization, database queries, file uploads, and gzip compression.

Connections: 512, 1,024

How it works

1. The load generator (gcannon) opens 512 or 1,024 connections across 64 threads
2. Each connection is assigned a request template from a pool of 10 templates:
   • 3× baseline GET (GET /baseline11?a=1&b=2)
   • 2× baseline POST (POST /baseline11 with body)
   • 1× JSON processing (GET /json)
   • 1× SQLite DB query (GET /db?min=10&max=50)
   • 1× file upload (POST /upload with 1 MB body)
   • 2× gzip compression (GET /compression with Accept-Encoding: gzip)
3. Each connection sends 100 requests of its assigned type, then disconnects and reconnects with the next template type (round-robin rotation)
4. This rotation ensures all frameworks face a roughly even distribution of request types — fast connections cycle through all templates rather than staying on one type

Template rotation

Without rotation, connections assigned to lightweight endpoints (baseline: ~2 byte response) would complete hundreds of reconnect cycles, while heavy endpoints (compression: ~234 KB response) complete only a few. This would skew the results — frameworks efficient at heavy endpoints would paradoxically show lower total RPS.

With rotation, each connection cycles through all 10 templates on successive reconnects. Fast connections rotate faster, spreading their requests across all endpoint types. The result is a much more balanced distribution across all frameworks.

What it measures

• Overall throughput — how well a framework handles diverse concurrent workloads
• Code path diversity — performance when multiple subsystems (routing, JSON, DB, I/O, compression) are active simultaneously
• Resource contention — thread pool saturation, memory pressure, and CPU scheduling under mixed load
• Endpoint balance — whether a framework handles all request types efficiently or only excels at simple ones

Weighted scoring

Raw requests per second is not a fair metric for mixed workloads because different request types have vastly different computational costs. A framework that handles more compression or database requests is doing significantly more work per request than one that mostly serves baseline responses.

The mixed score weights each request by its computational cost:

weighted = baseline × 0.1 + json × 1 + db × 15 + upload × 15 + compression × 8
score    = (weighted / max(weighted)) × 100

The framework with the highest weighted total scores 100, others scale proportionally.

Request mix visualization

The leaderboard displays a stacked bar for each framework showing the actual distribution of completed requests by type. Hovering reveals exact counts and percentages. This makes it transparent how each framework distributed its work across endpoint types.

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