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Is the backend/search kernel in Perl to? I wrote the first prototype of Boitho (Norwegian internet search engine, now defunct) in Perl in 2000. That did not wo
by runarb 14y ago
Is the backend/search kernel in Perl to?
I wrote the first prototype of Boitho (Norwegian internet search engine, now defunct) in Perl in 2000. That did not work at all because memory access and sorting was so slow. We had to write the next version in C. Of course a lot has happen with Perl in the last 13 years, but search kernel in Perl still sounds odd in my ears.
- randomstring 14y agoGranted, sometimes flipping bits is important. Then you write that part in C. There is no reason to pay the development tax of C for everything else. Not when you can build it in Perl, get it working, and then find the hotspots and convert those to C.
- badgar 14y ago> There is no reason to pay the development tax of C for everything else. Not when you can build it in Perl, get it working, and then find the hotspots and convert those to C. Certainly not with fewer than 20 million req/day.