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I wonder if HN's single threaded nature has anything to do with it. Eight cores or 16 threads don't do much good when your bespoke Arc Lisp stack is single core
by voxadam 4y ago
I wonder if HN's single threaded nature has anything to do with it. Eight cores or 16 threads don't do much good when your bespoke Arc Lisp stack is single core limited.
- JohnHaugeland 4y agoI kind of wonder if it's somehow not thread safe, or not talking to a database; or if not, why they don't just run parallel copies
- _Wintermute 4y agoI can't find an authoritative source, but I've read that HN uses text files stored in a filesystem rather than a database, so that might be why?