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Re:It’s Faster Because It’s C by bokbar on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @11:40AM (#1511671)
True, but I think his post isn't about generalized comparison of programming languages, but rather a pun towards "Its faster because its C" claims. Not that often our software can benefit from exploiting caching, especially in "release often, release early" world of web startups.
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Re:It’s Faster Because It’s C by tptacek on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @12:25PM (#1511832)
Not sure you're following: C programs can be optimized to take advantage of caching (or to use a low-overhead allocator, or to use more or less compact representations) in ways high-level languages either retard or disallow altogether. And all software benefits from caching.

I think your real observation is that C level performance just isn't that relevant in scale-horizontal network-bound programs, and I agree with you.

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