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> In most businesses, programming language speed is NOT the bottleneck of the operation You know, people love to say this, but in every company I've worked at
by kscaldef 16y ago
> In most businesses, programming language speed is NOT the bottleneck of the operation
You know, people love to say this, but in every company I've worked at (sample size 3), past the first year or so of operations, programming language / framework speed actually was a very significant concern for the business.
This may be self-selection; scaling and performance are two of my areas of specialization. However, whenever I'm on the job market, there doesn't seem to be any shortage of companies trying to hire people to help them handle their performance and scaling problems.
- poet 16y agoIt seems like you misunderstand my comment. The idea I'm getting at is that it's usually something else besides the programming that is the bottleneck, not that bottlenecks don't exist. You're going to hit architectural and database issues long before you hit Ruby's GC in most applications.
- kscaldef 16y agoI understand your comment, and I disagree with it. Most specifically, I disagree with the "long before" part of it. In my experience, code performance has been roughly as important as architectural and database issues. You will have to deal with all of them, and on roughly the same time scale.