* Performance doesn't matter for a large set of systems we write.
* Performance is far more a product of the programmer than the language you use (within reason, naturally. Don't do Video decoders in Python :)
* Large-scale systems where there is no single tight loop anywhere are way different beasts. Their performance stems largely from fast RTT in the edit-compile-test cycle and programmer productivity. Not from fast native code execution.
* To some problems, latency or sustainability matters more than throughput.
* Performance doesn't matter for a large set of systems we write. * Performance is far more a product of the programmer than the language you use (within reason, naturally. Don't do Video decoders in Python :) * Large-scale systems where there is no single tight loop anywhere are way different beasts. Their performance stems largely from fast RTT in the edit-compile-test cycle and programmer productivity. Not from fast native code execution. * To some problems, latency or sustainability matters more than throughput.