From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2007-09-24T04:08:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

forrie wrote:

> I presume most people here read today's article on Slashdot which had
> some critique about Ruby and scaling to a large architecture.

Nope.

I go with Dave Thomas's verbiage "Ruby stays out of your way". That says it 
all - dynamic typing, clear simple statements, endless extensibility, and 
realistic scaling, all in a nutshell.

> I remember a previous gig where we used Java heavily and the scaling
> was pretty linear.  Need more space?  Add another blade and so on...

That's not scaling! (Okaaay, that's only one aspect of scaling!)

How did your Java design itself scale? The rate you add new features - did 
it go up or down over time? _That's_ scaling. If the rate doesn't slow down, 
you have time to tune your code to speed it up and handle more users...

-- 
  Phlip