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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by sieabahlpark on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:12PM (#17648086)
An interpreted language is slower than a compiled binary? Color me shocked.
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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by hk__2 on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:46PM (#17648383)
> An interpreted language is slower than a compiled binary? Color me shocked.

That same benchmark shows JS code that’s 6x faster than PHP.

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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by barrkel on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:06PM (#17648570)
Yes, but JS is faster than Ruby and Python, and indeed most of your go-to scripting options.
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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by anonytrary on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:24AM (#17650974)
JS has the advantage of being the thing that makes your website run faster on the screen of the user whose clicks are earning you ad dollars. JS is in a good spot.
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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by NVRM on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @08:12AM (#17661739)
Not always! https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by igouy on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @04:27PM (#17666654)
Furthermore ;-)

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by bufferoverflow on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:30PM (#17648749)
PHP is JIT-compiled, which helps.
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