Introduction

Disclaimer: The absolute numbers here are not representative for loadtimes of either application on your server.
The thing we're looking for here is how results compare to eachother.

Hardware:
-Acer Aspire 7720G l
-Intel Core 2 du0 T5250 with Santa Rosa chipset (1.5Ghz 667MHz FSB 2MB L2 cache)
-2GB DDR2

Software
-XAMPP package with Zend Optimzer disabled
-No opcode caching enabled
-MySQL query caching enabled with default settings
-Windows Vista running classic theme (yes vista is lame, I know)

-SVN checkout of joomla 1.5
-CVS checkout Drupal 6.1
-Jmeter
-Apache Benchmark

Part 1: Testing for load times with Jmeter

Test Setup: