Let's not forget how long the instance startup time is for Java applications vs Python and Go. Of course, once Java gets warmed up it's quick, but that loading request can be painful.
Though to be fair, it's much much better than it used to be. On Friday, August 22, 2014 1:15:23 AM UTC-4, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Luna Duclos <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Go is by far the fastest runtime for appengine currently, as it is (as >> far as I'm aware) the only compiled language currently in the mix. >> > > This is not true. Java is JIT-compiled. > > See http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ > > TL;DR: Java and Go programs are about equal for pure computation, but if > the garbage collector gets involved, Java is much faster. > > Jeff > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
