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Flatly claiming that Rails can't scale is overstating the case, but their is some truth to it: relative to other frameworks / languages, the effort required to
by scw 18y ago
Flatly claiming that Rails can't scale is overstating the case, but their is some truth to it: relative to other frameworks / languages, the effort required to scale Rails is greater than other popular languages.
This has improved with mongrel_cluster and (more recently) Passenger, but the memory footprint for a Rails application continues to be an issue, even relative to other dynamic languages.
- petercooper 18y agoI'm intrigued.. do the efforts to scale Ruby and Perl differ significantly beyond their respective base-line performance? Interpreter level threads and multi-process based techniques have tended to be common approaches in both various Perl and Ruby projects I've worked with.