You should probably ask this on stackoverflow.com.

The empty string does not.

http://www.xamuel.com/inverse-graphing-calculator.php?phrase...

But, I have no idea. Perhaps it is a bug wherein a CRLF is being added to the internal string? However, I highly doubt that.

"Blogging Pro"? Right. My unborn child has a better grasp of basic grammar rules. What an annoying thing to read!

Isn't 1300 users per box extremely low for a load test?

I was going to say "We should hang out" but we would probably tear each other's eyes out.

Not being snarky here but how can anyone seriously consider Scalaris for any data that's even remotely important?

http://code.google.com/p/scalaris/wiki/FAQ#Is_the_store_pers...?

It certainly limits it from being useful if you don't have dollars to throw at high-end infrastructure, but it's not quite as terrible as it sounds. Effectively all it means is that you can't cold start it. How big a problem this is depends like anything else on the application in question.

As I write this comment I just know that in 5 years I will look at it and chuckle at myself but... it boggles my mind to consider a pure-RAM system that relies on at least one copy of the dataset being available forever in some system's "memory grid".

http://highscalability.com/are-cloud-based-memory-architectu...

Cherokee also tries to use HTTP 1.1 keepalive to upstream processes. NGiNX uses HTTP 1.0. I doubt this matters in most use cases however.