From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T17:08:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

2007/10/3, Jay Levitt <jay+news@jay.fm>:
> 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?

To me "scaling" just means "adjusting to higher load".  What you have
in mind seems a concrete solution to provide scaling but that's just
one (albeit a very common one).

Kind regards

robert