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A data point: the first version of memcached was written in perl. It was pretty good perl, with an async epoll-based event loop and everything. It was hopeless,
by anatoly 16y ago
A data point: the first version of memcached was written in perl. It was pretty good perl, with an async epoll-based event loop and everything. It was hopeless, orders of magnitude away from the desired performance.
- btilly 16y agoI'm not saying that there are not good examples where performance matters. In fact I encountered one where I had to move something from stored procedures in a database into C++. Furthermore I can easily believe that memcached is one of them. But that doesn't change the fact that most of the places that I have seen worry about it have not been among them, even if they thought they were. (I admittedly mostly work in the web world.)