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Sorry but this is not pedantic at all. You're saying performance speedup is irrelevant because most time is spent waiting for external services... But that is s

Sorry but this is not pedantic at all. You're saying performance speedup is irrelevant because most time is spent waiting for external services... But that is simply not true if you're beyond just a few servers. Output of external services needs to be processed and having faster software means less resource is spent per request, thus more requests can be served for the same resources. That is very important.

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> You're saying performance speedup is irrelevant I am not saying that; you are oversimplifying into a straw man. great-grand-parent comment is where I literally put a non-zero number to how relevant language perf improvement was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295950 and later on "Both can be relevant"; which all contradict your characterisation. The only person who said above "it's not relevant" is you, and you also said "external services are irrelevant" - You're projecting the "it's irrelevant" statement onto me here. But the design considerations of how and when to use external services very definitely are relevant to service latency, contrary to what you say, for reasons given multiple times above. Your current odd comments are not fact-based or interesting, so I don't think that you have anything more to add to this discussion at all.