Twitter move to Java

Martin Povolny mpovolny at redhat.com
Fri Nov 23 19:17:09 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 02:45:39PM +0100, Giulio Fidente wrote:
> 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?

It's more probably:

1) memory management

2) optimisation at many levels

both are given by the relatively long history of JVM and by it's use in
the enterprise

then of course it's in the way how smartly the jruby people map ruby's
dynamic features to the JVM

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