Comments on: Who said dynamic language performance doesn’t count?

By: What I accidently learnt about programming » Open source Scaling Ruby vs PHP

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:30:38 +0000

[...] Ted Leung [...]

By: rick

rick — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:50:49 +0000

yes, an enlightening article. Slower than Python, sheesh!
of course, rapid development of a system can be a key point in making/breaking it. Would they have gotten Twitter off the ground if they had chosen a different framework?

Does this mean the RonR model is good mainly for prototyping and startup? Then once you’ve proven its
viable, and/or need to scale you switch gears? What’s the
next step: Pyhon/TurboGears, PHP/Cake, Java/?, or .Net stacks?

By: mikeal

mikeal — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:00:13 +0000

/me smiles

From article:

If you’re looking to deploy a big web application and you’re language-agnostic, realize that the same operation in Ruby will take less time in Python