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by rb2k_ 5725 days ago
> It was new, shiny, and multithreaded

sigh, when will people learn about asynchronous I/O.

It would be interesting to see if something like this could be implemented in a programming language that has relatively "slow" virtual machines (e.g. Ruby) but base it on a fast event-processing library (e.g. Eventmachine). The tracker doesn't do a lot computation. It's mostly I/O, isn't it?

Another interesting choice would be node.js. A framework that seems to be optimized for that kind of architecture. A bit of caching and a scalable backend (e.g. Riak) would be a nice combination...

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I dare you... :)