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by rrdharan 3542 days ago
Zero startup time and a serious JIT aren't actually available in Python or Ruby even after all these years.

I would be hesitant to dismiss the significance of those - although I'm admittedly biased, having worked with Keith previously as well as on an erstwhile "competitor" to HHVM (talariatech.com).
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orf 3542 days ago
> Zero startup time

My pretty heavy Django app takes about half a second for Gunicorn to boot 6 workers then it's off to the races. That might as well be zero startup time.

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tracker1 3542 days ago
Similarly many of the node apps I've worked with have about a half second or less of startup (unless pre-warming database connections, that takes more time).
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