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Re:Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C++, Lua, tcl, JavaScript and... by facorreia on Monday March 24, 2014 @02:34PM (#7460260)
It's just a misguided benchmark. It contains statements such as "Java applications cannot match a fraction of other language's performance." That's in contrast with the experience of companies such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Yammer.
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Re:Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C++, Lua, tcl, JavaScript and... by na85 on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:29PM (#7460759)
Performance matters much less on the web.
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Re:Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C++, Lua, tcl, JavaScript and... by Fishkins on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:58PM (#7461411)
The point is, at least in the case of Twitter, they switched from Ruby to Java/Scala because they needed performance. Before that you could have been forgiven for thinking twitter was just a static page displaying the fail whale.
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Re:Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C++, Lua, tcl, JavaScript and... by peterwwillis on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:44PM (#7460889)
s?on the web?when you can scale your infrastructure horizontally using asynchronous, connectionless queries distributed across a global network with large peers, layers of caching and a set of uniform standards to interact with client/server applications?g
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