On Apr 22, 2008, at 12:46 AM, Nathan Day wrote:
The two technologies I am looking at are Ruby on Rails and Java,
though I am open to others.
My main concern with scripting languages like Ruby is performance
I think you'll get more useful advice if you describe in more detail
why you think performance is a concern. Parsing XML and doing SQL
queries doesn't sound like especially resource-intensive
operations. Do you have performance issues in your C
implementation? Generally performance bottlenecks show up in the
database layer, not the language layer. Here's a list of benchmarks
to give you an idea of the variance in speeds between languages,
which is really minimal:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all
Generally a more significant variance is speed of development, which
of course depends on your developers. So I guess I recommend you
use the language they want to use; enthusiasm breeds better work.
Peace,
Scott
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