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hnriot on March 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web Framework Benchmarks

haha, all those hipster developers using rails can now eat the php guys shorts :)

Seriously though, this isn't news to anyone that does this professionally. The further up the abstraction curve you climb, the less performant the code will be. Ease of development vs run-time performance.

oneeyedpigeon on March 29, 2013 [–]

Exactly. And since human time is much more expensive than CPU time, very few people are writing their web apps in machine code.

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