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Re: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

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post #87

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To some of you who are testing with your browser: Observing load times in your browser is fine for just fun but latency is irrelevant when evaluating the speed we're talking about here. A loading time benchmark of server-side code should naturally be calculated server-side, a server-side measurement of how long it took to execute the backend code. Nobody can accurately benchmark D over the net using their browser. If…

> It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen > It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen I like D. A lot. But please don't do this. It a) does not help D's popularity (if that is what you are trying to do , b) it makes you look like a troll or makes you look stupid (sorry)

I said that because when I lookup the benchmarks, that's what I see. I'm sure if I setup similar benchmarks of my own I'd probably get the same results (Unless the people who posted those that I've seen are lying and for some reason I doubt that).

You should think before calling someone a troll or saying that they sound stupid when they're citing information from an outside source. If I didn't think Dlang had a performance benefit I'd have a bit less incentive to use it. Are you saying such benchmarks are false? They seem legitimate to me. Search and view them yourself. If I were a troll I'd do something like you did, citing no evidence. Commenting in such a way without citing data makes YOU sound stupid (Sorry).

Re: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

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post #45

It's relatively straightforward. Take a look at what Pingdom tells you it does when the site loads: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cnYAuq/https://news.ycombina... 5 requests, Total size 12.6kB, total time 661ms. 1 request for the content, 1 for css, and then 3 gifs, all from a single domain (so just one DNS request). If you look at the profile, 47% of the time was spent doing that one DNS lookup, so subsequent reque…

There was a thread about slow web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9791606

I prefer a static site without JavaScript any time of day! (over a JS bloated webs(h)ite)

Re: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

#104
post #89
post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To some of you who are testing with your browser: Observing load times in your browser is fine for just fun but latency is irrelevant when evaluating the speed we're talking about here. A loading time benchmark of server-side code should naturally be calculated server-side, a server-side measurement of how long it took to execute the backend code. Nobody can accurately benchmark D over the net using their browser. If…

> It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen > It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen I like D. A lot. But please don't do this. It a) does not help D's popularity (if that is what you are trying to do , b) it makes you look like a troll or makes you look stupid (sorry)

To be fair, I'll run my own benchmarks at some point. For now, I have to rely on what's out there.

Re: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

#105

I've found that not including Google Analytics, Twitter buttons and that sort of stuff plays a major part in loading time. Despite the fact that those scripts have the 'async' tag, they still impact loading time. Heck, I get the feeling that they impact loading time more than my own CSS, images and Javascript. I already heavily minify and concatenate everything, as well as use SPDY for improved concurrent requests, b…

The fun part is when the google pagespeed tool starts nagging about google's own resources (fonts, analytics etc.) -- so meta.

Re: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

#106
post #89
post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To some of you who are testing with your browser: Observing load times in your browser is fine for just fun but latency is irrelevant when evaluating the speed we're talking about here. A loading time benchmark of server-side code should naturally be calculated server-side, a server-side measurement of how long it took to execute the backend code. Nobody can accurately benchmark D over the net using their browser. If…

> It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen > It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen I like D. A lot. But please don't do this. It a) does not help D's popularity (if that is what you are trying to do , b) it makes you look like a troll or makes you look stupid (sorry)

For instance, https://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/benchmarks-round-t...

Re: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

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You know, after 20 years of www, one'd think browsers would be able to competently format text files already. The fact that we need that small amount of css (instead of it just being available) means the web is still broken.

Check out Firefox reader view.

There should be a doctype declaration that automatically triggers this.

Re: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

#109
post #43
post #20

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What about it has been unreliable for you?

About once every few weeks, the site is hard-down for posting for several hours.

Downvote me all you want, https://twitter.com/HNStatus has all the data supporting my assertion.

Re: Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?

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post #109
post #43

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About once every few weeks, the site is hard-down for posting for several hours.

Downvote me all you want, https://twitter.com/HNStatus has all the data supporting my assertion.

HN hasn't been down for that long in a year.
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