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Adding layers of abstraction, on any platform, is generally guaranteed to be slower. Ruby and PHP are 10x slower than compiled C# and Java, for example. The "p
by mwsherman 16y ago
Adding layers of abstraction, on any platform, is generally guaranteed to be slower. Ruby and PHP are 10x slower than compiled C# and Java, for example.
The "performance" is transferred to the developer by creating higher level frameworks. Because these frameworks have to be general, they can't optimize for every use case.
- lucisferre 16y agoThat may be true, but in web-over-data scenarios architectural design issues are going to trump language choice almost every time. Node.js is a somewhat decent example of this principle at work.