On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 2:59:43 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, steve <st...@lonetwin.net> wrote: > > Come dude ! ...that's a lousy argument and you know it. I, myself, prefer > > python to C and C to perl ...but won't ever look at number of syscalls to > > defend my preference. > > I deal with sites that do more than 3 million visitor per day. And I have > had to handle more than 5000 requests/sec to my MySQL servers. Money is not > in abundance for me to throw servers here and there. Every bit counts at > run time and that is what decides if you will need 3 servers to handle 3 > million or more than 10 servers. I am talking about a real production > scenario. And I get my job because one of the things I do is get more for > the buck.
for that matter facebook handles more than that a day - so does youtube - they use python servers. I believe that they are getting bang for their buck. As are google, yahoo, livejournal ... none of them use C. As some one remarked, programmer's time is more expensive than memory, servers, RAM and bandwidth. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
