Re:How to get C like performance in Java
by peter_lawrey on Monday July 25, 2011 @05:03AM
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From a search I did suggest that Google have nowhere near 10K users per server. That is likely to be because the servers spend most of their time performing searches. The overhead of managing persistent connection is likely to be a small portion of what they do, like most real applications.
You seem to be implying that since, in this one use case, it's not useful, then it's not useful at all. That's a non sequitur. I already gave one concrete example of where it was useful in my past experiences.
Re:How to get C like performance in Java
by peter_lawrey on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @05:09AM
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Fair point.
Imagine if you have a giant datacenter like google, and heat and power are a serious problem. Accomplishing a task with fewer servers is a serious win.