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I believe the application code is single threaded due to its interpreter too.

• TremendousJudge 3y ago
  it does run pretty slow under load though, and they have acknowledged it's due to this
  • marginalia_nu 3y ago
    HN has mutable data though. That's a much harder problem than indexing a large amount of static data like a search engine.
• winrid 3y ago
  Not only that, but I don't think the custom datastore handles concurrent writes. One thread FTW. :)