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In my experience, with all business applications, this is almost never actually true. If the application is, in fact, “I/O-bound,”

If your "experience" is confined solely to yet-another-shopping-cart applications bolted together coding-by-numbers style from a bunch cpan modules, that may be the case, but "business" covers a great deal more ground that a bunch of mom&pop retail outlets.

There are a huge number and variety of cpu-bound business applications in this world -- else (for example) there's be no market for about 90% of IBMs hardware offerings -- finance; insurance; oil & gas; pharmaceuticals; entertainment; shipping & logistics; aircraft manufacturer; car manufacture; genomics & agriculture; the list goes on and on.

Dismissing the need for performance because your web app can't utilise it is extremely short-sighted.

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

The start of some sanity?

In reply to Re^2: Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler by BrowserUk
in thread Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler by Will_the_Chill

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