Hi Andre,
Many big sites including google, youtube, yahoo, facebook and sourceforge would disagree with you in that they attract massive traffic but use C++ only in components whilst relying on dynamic languages for workflow and to glue components together. YouTube was written largely in Python. FaceBook and SourceForge in PHP.
I think its a different story with P2P applications or servers running on an embedded device. C++ is standard in these areas. Even with ultra high performance web apps chances are the most memory used is for caching and most processing is carried out around the database.
Emir
Aug. 1, 2008, 2:01 p.m. - Emir
Hi Andre, Many big sites including google, youtube, yahoo, facebook and sourceforge would disagree with you in that they attract massive traffic but use C++ only in components whilst relying on dynamic languages for workflow and to glue components together. YouTube was written largely in Python. FaceBook and SourceForge in PHP. I think its a different story with P2P applications or servers running on an embedded device. C++ is standard in these areas. Even with ultra high performance web apps chances are the most memory used is for caching and most processing is carried out around the database. Emir