Re: highscalability.com report

"Randolf Richardson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Organization Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Hi All,
> 	So they did a complete rewrite without changing the hardware?
> My guess is that the site on the same hardware would be substantially slower.

	A change to the database design, as well as database engine (e.g., 
to something fantastic like PostgreSQL), indexing strategies, etc., 
would also be expected to have a major impact too.

[End of reply.]

> IMHO
> Dave
> 
> 
> On 04/04/12 08:23 AM, discobeta wrote:
> > agree, any rewrite of old code should improve by at least 10%, even if it was written in pascal
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:21 AM, André Warnier <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Rolf Banting wrote:
> >
> >         On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Perrin Harkins <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >             ...
> >
> >
> >         If they were to
> >
> >             rewrite it in Perl today, *it would go up again*!
> >
> >             - Perrin
> >
> >
> >         No performance anxiety there then.
> >
> >     Particularly with a non-threaded Perl, which allows Apache to fork multiple times..
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave Morgan
> Operations Manager, Cool Places In Canada
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Randolf Richardson - [email protected]
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