[Xapian-discuss] NetBeans and Java Bindings

[Kevin Duraj]

Please review the following articles written by Twitter developers and
read about the reasons why they decided to stop programming back-end
in Ruby. It is always better to learn on failures of others than on
your own.

Reference:  http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/twitter_on_scala.html

PS: And yes language X is not equal to language Y, unless you want to
invent your own mathematics.

Cheers,
Kevin Duraj


On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:52:52AM -0700, Kevin Duraj wrote:
>> Do you think that the shift towards Python and Ruby from Perl is the
>> cause of world wide economic crisis and global warnings? We all know
>> that Python and Ruby needs least 2-5 times more CPU and electricity to
>> consume in order to compute the same amount of data as Perl.
>
> I think unsupported assertions that language X is faster/slower than
> language Y are essentially just weak attempts at trolling.
>
> Even if you had any evidence to back up your claim, this wouldn't be
> an appropriate place to discuss such things.  The time Xapian takes
> is likely to dominate the time spent in the calling language.
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
>