Re:The computers are fast, but you don't know it
by fatnoah on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:29PM
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As a long-time C# user who started life with coding for embedded systems with C, graduated to C++ business tiers, and then on to C#, my personal crusade has always been to show that it's very possible to make things go pretty fast with C#.
One of my favorite moments happened after my C#-based back-end company was acquired by an all-[FASTER LANGUAGE] company. We had to connect our platforms and hit a shared performance goal of supporting 1 billion events/month, which amounted to something like (IIRC) 380 per second. Our platform hit that mark running on 3 server setup w/2 Amazon Medium FE servers and a SQL backend. The other company's bits choked at 10 per second, running on roughly 50x the infra.
Poorly written and architected code is a bigger drag than the specific language in many cases.
One of my favorite moments happened after my C#-based back-end company was acquired by an all-[FASTER LANGUAGE] company. We had to connect our platforms and hit a shared performance goal of supporting 1 billion events/month, which amounted to something like (IIRC) 380 per second. Our platform hit that mark running on 3 server setup w/2 Amazon Medium FE servers and a SQL backend. The other company's bits choked at 10 per second, running on roughly 50x the infra.
Poorly written and architected code is a bigger drag than the specific language in many cases.