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Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

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257 points pg | 1 comments | 19 Jan 11 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dauphin ◴[19 Jan 11 19:45 UTC] No.2120970[source]▶
Lisp is definitely not a slow language: you can handle the crazy rate of 20 requests/second on a multi-core server!
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1. mahmud ◴[20 Jan 11 02:58 UTC] No.2122423[source]▶
If you choose to. We pushed north of 800 r/s in production, and just shy of 4k in our LAN, that's using stock hunchentoot with just mere customization.

This guy here broke the 10k barrier:

http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-c10k

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