Comparing clojure and node.js for speed

Re:Comparing clojure and node.js for speed by tomazmuraus on Thursday April 07, 2011 @06:39PM (#2421512)

Nothing new here.

Node wasn't ever really meant to be used for CPU intensive tasks - especially the ones like this which you can fairly easy parallelize.

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Re:Comparing clojure and node.js for speed by UncleOxidant on Thursday April 07, 2011 @06:42PM (#2421523)

Exactly, If I were using node and needed to calculate primes I'd probably write some C++ code to handle that part and run it as a server in a separate process that can be called asynchronously from node.

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Re:Comparing clojure and node.js for speed by calpaterson on Thursday April 07, 2011 @06:54PM (#2421561)

Hopefully you'd try another algorithm before you did that ;). Primality tests are one of the most highly understood and well documented areas of CS - trial division has been obsolete since, what, 1640?

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Re:Comparing clojure and node.js for speed by btilly on Thursday April 07, 2011 @07:43PM (#2421717)

... trial division has been obsolete since, what, 1640?

Longer than that. The sieve of Eratosthenes is attributed to Eratosthenes, who lived from 276 BC to 195 BC.

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Re:Comparing clojure and node.js for speed by calpaterson on Friday April 08, 2011 @07:31AM (#2423297)

Hah, this exact thing occurred to me lying in bed last night :)

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