Good work by Phusion guys (as usual). It is extremely heartening to see renewed focus on performance by them.

I was a little disappointed to read this comment though:

  Needless to say, we’ve performed our own benchmarks already and have concluded 
  that “the self-proclaimed fastest deployment solution” really isn’t 
  the fastest deployment solution compared to Phusion Passenger 3. ;-)

The comment seemed a little snarky to me. Never met these folks in person, but all I have heard is good things about them. So, I hope it was just a tongue in cheek comment about the competitor solution. :-)

Most of the times competition is good for everyone, as it raises the bar and in general improves helps improve the quality of the solutions.

Hope they keep coming up with more such good things in future.

Disclaimer: I am the co-creator of the 'self proclaimed fastest ..' referred in the post. - http://webroar.in/blog/2009/11/25/comparison-of-rails-deploy...

I am no longer involved in the project, so would not be able to say anything on behalf of the folks who currently taking care of it now.