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Re:Using C for a specialized data store by dagw on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @09:48AM (#3675634)
According to the article their Node solution took 4 seconds to run (down from 7 seconds after some optimization) and their C solution 0.03 seconds. Now maybe they could have sped up their node code more, but those sort of improvements hardly count as premature optimization.
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Re:Using C for a specialized data store by ori_b on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @08:44PM (#3678246)
Since the usual expected slowdown for jit compiled scripts is somewhere on the order of 5 times (obviously, this is a very loose guess, and the number will vary by script, style, and workload), I wonder what they could have been doing to cause a 200x slowdown.
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