tychver

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by tychver 9y ago
I think bitmap heap scans have had concurrent IO for quite a while now? There's the effective_io_concurrency setting for it.
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by tychver 9y ago
We just had the largest ever European Ruby Conference. Ruby has fallen off the Hacker News hype list, but it's far from dying, let alone dead. At 24 years old it's simply matured.
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by tychver 9y ago
https://github.com/k0kubun/llrb and https://github.com/vnmakarov/ruby/tree/rtl_mjit_branch
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by tychver 9y ago
1) I honestly have not seen a ratio that high for a web service. Most of the hot points of serving a web request through Ruby are actually written in C, so on the same machine I can only serve about 2x as many simple JSON requests through G
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by tychver 9y ago
You've been led astray by the benchmarks. The reality is it's literally as fast as C because you're just hooking out to zlib. It's much better to think of Ruby as a Smalltalk like high level language used to glue togethe
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by tychver 9y ago
1) All it really changes is the ratio of application servers to DB servers. If you're running $40k of servers a month it might be worth it. Otherwise, probably not. At the time Twitter was struggling with scale they were also still run
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by tychver 9y ago
"I always thought Smalltalk would beat Java. I just didn't know it would be called 'Ruby' when it did so." - Kent Beck There's a decent demand for Ruby developers worldwide. I worked in New Zealand before getti
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by tychver 10y ago
You're missing the crucial fact that you pay half and your employer pays the other half! From an employee point of view it's 8.4% for health insurance and 9.35% for pension (how much are you contributing to your 401k?). Public hea