Thanks a lot Matt and Ravi, very helpful.
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:45 PM, // ravi <ravi-li...@g8o.net> wrote: > On May 24, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Baz <b...@thinkloop.com> wrote: > > I'm still getting the feeling that there is very little negative about > doing this, and that mostly the negative feelings come from the fact that > it's not the awesomest way of using node - rather than it actually being > "bad". I'm not trying to compare awesome node to less awesome node, I'm > trying to compare less awesome node to Java/Python/.net for a specific > use-case. > > > There are a lot of performance measurements and benchmarks out there, > these days, that pit these languages (and the underlying frameworks) > against each other. Given that you wrote (IIRC) that you want to churn > through a lot of data, I assume performance is important to you. I haven’t > seen any benchmark where Python or other interpreted (or byte-intepreted) > languages come in better than JavaScript running on V8. Recently someone > posted his measurement of JavaScript parseInt() which fared poorly against > a hand-coded version (again in JS), so you may have to profile your code > and watch for such quirks if they exist. > > Apart from that, and considerations of personal preferences w.r.t coding > style, I do not see anything that puts a general purpose high-level > language (JS) with a robust engine (v8) and a progressively strong > framework (node) — not to forget a lively community — at a disadvantage > relative to others. > > 2 cents, > > —ravi > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
