Are Ruby on Rails site usually slower than java or .net sites? (This is assuming developers are not abusing the technology.)
A lot of Ruby sites I have seen have performance issues.
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Here's a start
Framework Preformance Comparison
Related interest article Twitter abandons ROR its old I know but I didnt actually know that lol
Short answer
Could potentially sure.
Might be more likely than some other languages.
Depends on the application, the programmer and the architecture.
Terrance
2010-08-18 17:20:43
twitter is still using ruby, and rails, along with a ton of other technologies. you can read about some of their infrastructure challenges at their engineering blog. http://engineering.twitter.com/
Jed Schneider
2010-08-18 18:52:32
Gotta say I didn't know that. Thanks for the update.
Terrance
2010-09-17 15:46:51
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This would be a good article to read: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/architecture-wins-varnish-and-more/
Jed Schneider
2010-08-18 18:24:59
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As I see it - RoR is only a bit slower. At least slower than .Net, cause ruby is interpreted language.
But in general - it depends on quality of developers. RoR app that uses nice caching will work n times faster than .net/java app that loads half database into memory and sends plenty database requests cause of select n+1.
Arnis L.
2010-08-18 18:25:47
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yes it is slower, but in production it will probably only hurt you once your load "exceeds a certain point" ("x requests/sec") and most sites never see more load than that.
rogerdpack
2010-08-19 00:07:01