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> Honestly, add another machine and the problem is solved. youll be able to afford a team of programmers to rewrite your app in any language of your choosing by the time you feel the slow down. I understand your point, but your statement isn't true in all circumstances. It depends on your business model. Performance begins to matter more when the economics demand it. Say you're working on a game that has a free tier,…
The benchmark linked appears to be a 4x speedup that can potentially be attributed to the view engines used. It's really ridiculous to argue for 20x speedups without evidence of the deficit being in the web framework. So lets take your hypothetical game example... What are your requests doing exactly? Are they returning cached content? If so, the caching policy is more important. If you're running a game, game state…
I am aware that much of Eve Onlike is written in Python. But they are very premium: $15/mo. Would they be able to support their infrastructure for say $3 from 1 out of every 10 users once every 3 months?
I'm also aware that Facebook was originally written in PHP. Their business model is different, but they are also world leaders in PHP performance and compiling. There's a reason they invested so much in the performance.