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"often from people who have written their web applications in Ruby" Can you elaborate? What is Ruby's shortcoming in this area?

• jrockway 17y ago
  If performance is so important that you can't encrypt your login form, then you probably shouldn't be using a language that runs 50x slower than C. (Just to be clear; all my web applications are this slow too. But I enable SSL.)
  • jdee 17y ago
    As always, it depends what your app is doing. I've got a realtime event hanling solution where the performance dips close to 50% when you turn SSL on simply because of the handshake times.
  • veemjeem 17y ago
    So we shouldn't use python, perl, or php either? The last time I checked, all of these languages are at least 30x slower than C.