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nostrademons on Nov 5, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: The future of programming languages in a massively...

Usually CPU latency for a web request is very tiny compared to network/DB/IO latency, though.

emfle on Nov 6, 2007 [–]

Sure, but I/O can be parallelized too. The argument is not specific to CPU at all.

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