<venividi> hooray for emacs and jdee. *much* easier, faster, and more resource friendly than eclipse.
<venividi> (that's *right* folks, i've found something where emacs is *more*
resource friendly than the competitor...)
Nobody cares about efficiency any more. For what it costs to get a knowledgeable person to do performance tuning, you can buy two or three more servers.
The proof of this is that we're using Java for ANYTHING, let alone almost everything.
I just got done coding a really slick perl app for NASA that runs almost entirely out of RAM cache and hardly ever touches the disk, but does anyone care?
Nah. They'd rather have it in Java so they can have their junior code monkeys hack on it.
Pet peeve: Sites that rebuild the exact same pages dynamically every time someone views the page. And then people complain when they're only allowed to use 60 CPU-minutes a day on their shared host.
I've written software that serves up a handful of pages a second, and barely registers on the CPU, with the incredible innovation of writing static pages to disk as HTML files and letting Apache serve them up.
The app I'm talking about is like that, except that the static pages live in memory (there are only a few of them), along with (nearly) all the prepared DBI queries. (There was another guy working on the project who couldn't get beyond preparing a new query every time he hit the database, but fortunately most of the code is mine, not his.)
It replaced a monstrosity of embperl templates, served afresh from disk every time they were hit. Because the previous contractor couldn't be bothered to design a database schema, they stored all the data as serialized hashes in CLOB fields. Yay.
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Date: 2006-01-23 10:55 pm (UTC)The proof of this is that we're using Java for ANYTHING, let alone almost everything.
I just got done coding a really slick perl app for NASA that runs almost entirely out of RAM cache and hardly ever touches the disk, but does anyone care?
Nah. They'd rather have it in Java so they can have their junior code monkeys hack on it.
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Date: 2006-01-24 03:04 pm (UTC)I've written software that serves up a handful of pages a second, and barely registers on the CPU, with the incredible innovation of writing static pages to disk as HTML files and letting Apache serve them up.
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Date: 2006-01-25 02:48 am (UTC)It replaced a monstrosity of embperl templates, served afresh from disk every time they were hit. Because the previous contractor couldn't be bothered to design a database schema, they stored all the data as serialized hashes in CLOB fields. Yay.