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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by mrh0057 on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:11PM (#24974077)
Another issue is people don't understand how powerful modern hardware is. You have modern systems that process less transaction per a second ones from the 1970s.

Just look at the modern SPA. They are slower than ones 10 years ago, and the JavaScript VM is much faster plus all the hardware gains. Why does it make Twitter and Gmail a few seconds to load?

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by AtlasBarfed on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:42PM (#24976085)
I don't doubt certain mainframe apps of the (late) 1970s could beat the TPS of a generically frameworked app in certain situations, but do you have any real numbers/situations/case studies to back that up?
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by mrh0057 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:58AM (#25024252)
Can't remember the name of the system that did 4k but found a paper about bank of America processing 1k a second.
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