On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Baz <b...@thinkloop.com> wrote: > Prajwal, you said "use something lower level (thus faster) like JVM > (Scala/Java) for this". Is that proven? Is Java faster at looping, and > concatenating and adding numbers and such? The only benchmarks I see are > web-related, so I just have no idea. Good point on the limited computation > libraries tho - I don't think I need anything fancy but I should definitely > make sure the libs I need are available in node before getting started. >
I think Java is well proven to be faster at this point. But it's a lot more complicated writing Java code. > I've read some confusing stuff on memory, probably because things have > changed quickly recently in V8 and node in that regard. It seems there > shouldn't be a problem though because, as Ben mentioned, while the "JS > heap is limited to slightly less than 2 GB, buffers and typed arrays live > mostly outside the JS heap.". To be sure, what's an example of how I could > run out of heap if I had, say, a 10GB array (outside of heap) that I'm > processing? > A typical example is if you started filling an object up with millions of keys. The garbage collector is going to have a bar hair day if you do that. > Pedro you say "Node is great for doing I/O and not much else", but this > is exactly what I'm trying to get to the bottom of. I know this is the > general drumbeat and I'm trying to find tangible reasons why. > I don't find that to be entirely true. Though it really comes down to a question of JS/V8 vs other options, not really Node. Sounds like you won't be doing much I/O so Node won't really come into it - it's more V8. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
