Java (specifically J2EE) is good at things like dealing with large
number of transactions, dealing with application state, and stuff
like that. But a significant majority of applications on the Web
don’t necessarily generate enough of a transaction load to justify
the penalties you have to pay with Java – which carries a lot of
baggage with it to make the bytecode compiler happy that “agile”
languages like Python and Perl (especially Perl) don’t worry about.
If they *really* need performance, they’ll write it in what Linux
developers invariably resort to for such a task: C.
number of transactions, dealing with application state, and stuff
like that. But a significant majority of applications on the Web
don’t necessarily generate enough of a transaction load to justify
the penalties you have to pay with Java – which carries a lot of
baggage with it to make the bytecode compiler happy that “agile”
languages like Python and Perl (especially Perl) don’t worry about.
If they *really* need performance, they’ll write it in what Linux
developers invariably resort to for such a task: C.
Link: linuxworld.com
