DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day and Growing
DDG is using dynamic language like Perl[1] to achieve high-scalability which is slowest of all languages. This proves languages don't matter much, its all about architecture.<p>I guess its time to stop worrying about performance of your programming language & start building better high-salable architectures.<p>[1] Slowest of all languages <a href="http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-are-fastest.php?gcc=on&gpp=on&ifc=on&java=on&v8=on&hipe=on&jruby=on&php=on&python3=on&yarv=on&perl=on&calc=chart" rel="nofollow">http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-a...</a>