I can't address what you've been reading, but certainly the JVM blows
away the VMs of common web programming languages PHP, Python, and
Ruby. You have a much higher performance ceiling in Scala than those
languages, and furthermore the abstractions you need to build scalable
sites (non-blocking IO, memory mapped IO, etc.)
N.
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I've been spending some of my spare time reading through Lift's source. A lot of websites that describe Lift emphasize that its architecture is based on actors an that actors are what give Lift its legendary performance.
But reading through the source, I found scant reference to actors. I did some further research and found this thread (http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/2a6590c341b11faa/8f7b298308c6ade4?) which confirmed what I'd begun to suspect: that actors in Lift are mostly used for Comet support.So if it's not actors all the way down, how is Lift able to handle so much traffic?
Or is it only the Comet subsystem that blows other frameworks out of the water and the standard HTTP request processing has more or less average performance?
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This is the one I remember most distinctly:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/648964/why-is-the-lift-web-framework-scalable/742124#742124
On May 31, 12:10 am, Naftoli Gugenheim <naftoli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any quotes or links?
> Just curious if these websites' wording is ambiguous/misleading or
> misinformed...
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> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Bill Atkins <batkin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A lot of websites that describe Lift emphasize that its architecture is
> > based on actors an that actors are what give Lift its legendary performance.
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