"Tim Krimm" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > ... > later in discussion > > > The D programming language people have successfully combined a mailing > list and tradition web forum into one. What's more, the web forum is > lightning fast to boot (fastest ever forum I've ever used - why can't > phpBB etc. be that fast?). > > The exact specifics are unknown to me, but from what I've heard, they've > done a terrific job: > http://forum.dlang.org/ [dlang.org] > > > ... > later in discussion > > Sweet Jesus Fuck that is fast. > > > ... > later in discussion > > > Vladimir Panteleev (aka CyberShadow) has mentioned some of the reasons why > it's so fast at ycombinator [ycombinator.com]: > > * Optimized and deflated static resources > * Deflated HTML output > * SQLite prepared statements > * Integrated HTTP server (although it's currently in front of an Apache > proxy) > * An optimized string builder > (https://github.com/CyberShadow/DAppenderResearch) > * RAM cache of frequent DB queries >
Yea, plus it's not written in PHP. That alone probably makes a noticable difference.
