From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T06:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:37:01 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote:

> It definitively is.  One aspect of Ruby that hinders scaling is the 
> absence of native threads IMHO.  On the other hand, mechanisms are 
> provided for IPC (DRb for example) which are easy to use and thus may be 
> counted as compensating at least partially for the lack of native threading.

Depends what you mean by "scaling".  When I think of scaling, I think of
tens or hundreds of thousands of servers running
AOL/eBay/Amazon/Google-style apps.  At that level, threads don't matter
much; what matters is that your app scales near-linearly with hardware
(what we used to call "dollar scalable").

What do you mean by scaling?

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