Comment by cutler
16 hours ago
Making dynamically typed, single threaded languages faster via JIT usually comes at the cost of a significant increase in memory consumption which for businesses smaller than Shopify is a much more significant factor.
16 hours ago
Making dynamically typed, single threaded languages faster via JIT usually comes at the cost of a significant increase in memory consumption which for businesses smaller than Shopify is a much more significant factor.
Is it? Smaller business usually comes with smaller applications. Most cloud and hardware vendors give you about 4GiB of RAM per core, maybe only 2 when using "CPU optimized instances", that's huge and leave plenty of space for a couple hundred MB of JITed code.