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Re:Reddit costs $33k/month to operate? by apower on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @11:47AM (#1551587)
Proof that static type languages are much faster than dynamic languages. Reddit has resorted to use C for speedup.
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Re:Reddit costs $33k/month to operate? by blueben on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @01:09PM (#1551903)
Proof that in this single instance, Reddit developers decided this was a suitable optimization for their codebase.

This also calls into question the original assumption, that posters believed Reddit had far too many wasteful servers to handle their service, and that it was because they use a dynamic language.

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Re:Reddit costs $33k/month to operate? by jedberg on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @02:16PM (#1552125)
Was there ever a question about that? I thought that was pretty much a fact. Of course static typed languages are faster.
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