Nikolaj Baer wrote:
In talking to a google engineer a while back, he mentioned offhand
that, although he had done his particular google project in python,
they were strongly considering moving it to java due to scalability
issues. This isn't the first time I have heard the implication that
for truly massive applications, java is really the standard.
I have been reading a bunch lately, everything from shards and
hibernate to youtube scalability (they have a python app under the
hood), and I can't seem to find a simple explanation of what makes
java better at scaling.
Threads. Python doesn't do threads. (see: global interpreter lock aka GIL)
Unless Guido pulls his head out of ass and accepts one of the threading
solutions, Python is eventually going to give way to a language that
does threads.
-a
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