I'm not convinced. There are benchmarks[0] that strongly suggest a choice of language is as much a factor in general performance (not merely I/O tasks) as platf

I'm not convinced. There are benchmarks[0] that strongly suggest a choice of language is as much a factor in general performance (not merely I/O tasks) as platform (though these frequently go together) and hardware. [0]http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9 http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9: in which python frameworks generally perform poorly compared to...anything else other than Ruby