Twitter move to Java

Giulio Fidente gfidente at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 16 13:45:39 UTC 2012


On 11/16/2012 01:57 PM, Martyn Taylor wrote:
> Worryingly...
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/
> 
> Let's all not jump ship just yet!

Now, not to start any war on programming languages but I always tought
that the JVM was faster [1] (for cpu bound and memory bound tasks)
mainly because has got strong and static typing.

But is it just that?

[1]
http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/performance-comparison-c-java-python-ruby-jython-jruby-groovy/
-- 
Giulio Fidente



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