Kirk Haines:
> 
> How about this:
> 
> A dynamic web site that's been running a couple years, with all of the
> content pulled from a database, and navigation generated dynamically
> from db contents, running on a shared server that is a few years old
> (i.e. not cutting edge hardware), running on Ruby 1.8.6 (i.e. not a
> speedy version of Ruby).
> 
> Requests per second:    137.45 [#/sec] (mean)
> 
> Make it more complex by pulling a page that renders a big table of
> itty bitty numbers for mutual fund performance:
> 
> Requests per second:    82.48 [#/sec] (mean)
> 
> However, mitigate even those slow speeds by running it behind a load
> balancer, implemented with Ruby, that caches the generated pages and
> serves them from cache (while the LB is also managing requests for 70
> other sites):
> 
> Requests per second:    6107.65 [#/sec] (mean)
> 


Those show the statistics for a small application IMO.
Once our application serves 200 million page views each day, and 
generates 4T datas on storage. Under that case, the languange is really 
sensitive, so we go with C/C++.

Regards,
Jeff.