MacFUSE sshfs vs WebDAV benchmarks

With the wonderful MacFUSE filesystem layer I can mount a remote disk using ssh — awesome. But how does it compare speed-wise to the more universally supported WebDAV? Some quick Xbench that would make my statistics professors blush:

sshfs

WebDAV

Conclusions

Whoa. I mean, whoa.

15.78 to 0.54 — sshfs is almost 30 times faster. No more WebDAV for me.