From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T00:38:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 00:19:40 +0900, benjohn@fysh.org wrote:
>> Thank you!! It's about time somebody put a dollar figure on the cost of
>> poor scalability and highlighted the nonsense of "adding servers is
>> cheaper than hiring programmers." They are two entirely different
>> economic propositions.
> 
> That's true. However, very roughly, compute resource can scale about
> linearly with compute requirement.

What about Amdahl's law?
 
> Alternatively, you can reduce the compute requirement by having a more
> complex software system.

While it's true that very simple systems can perform badly because
they use poor algorithms and/or do not make dynamic optimizations,
more complex software generally means increased computational
requirements.

-mental