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jrockway
on Aug 4, 2009
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Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth
Why is everyone so concerned with multi-core concurrency withi languages like Python and Ruby? Adding another processor will get you, best case, a 2x speedup. Rewriting in, say, OCaml or Haskell will get you a 25x speedup.
25 processors buys you a lot of programming time.
lacker
on Aug 4, 2009
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Adding another processor to my computer is quick and easy. Rewriting an application in another language is slow and hard.
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25 processors buys you a lot of programming time.