From 8e49fed91876f154e9ed58e995aa738223e6417e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Hoffman Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 13:23:13 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] minor improvements to benchmarking doc --- docs/topics/benchmarking.rst | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/topics/benchmarking.rst b/docs/topics/benchmarking.rst index 1dcd8357d..9ae6dd2cb 100644 --- a/docs/topics/benchmarking.rst +++ b/docs/topics/benchmarking.rst @@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ Benchmarking ============ +.. versionadded:: 0.17 + Scrapy comes with a simple benchmarking suite that spawns a local HTTP server and crawls it at the maximum possible speed. The goal of this benchmarking is -to get a measurement of how Scrapy performs in your hardware, and compare it to -other machines using a simple spider as baseline. +to get an idea of how Scrapy performs in your hardware, in order to have a +common baseline for comparisons. It uses a simple spider that does nothing and +just follows links. To run it use::