Conclusion

It seems like Rails is roughly 62% faster than Catalyst at this time. Keep in mind this benchmark does not take into account the ORM performance. This benchmark tests how quick the frameworks themselves dispatch methods and render views.

Also take into consideration when choosing a framework you need to look at the problem at hand. Catalyst can feed off Perl's vast CPAN resource library. Catalyst has features that Rails does not have. Catalyst's DBIC ORM supports multi-column primary keys and can do relationship mapping just by reading the schema! You don't even have to bother writing any has_many belongs_to definitions!

I am going to have to take a look into Django see how well it fairs in this benchmark. Perhaps an update on this?

Catalyst is still kind of slow. It allows you to harness the power of the CPAN, and you get ORM, MVC, etc. But its kinda slow. This doesn't whatsoever matter for my application, where lots of numbers are crunched, and so the DB is the limiting factor, but it is noteworthy.

I'm sure mst and crew are working on it.