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by zamalek 1344 days ago
> Deno is a multi-threaded server that utilizes in this test almost 2x the CPU-time while Bun is running single-threaded utilizing only 1x the CPU-time.

So we should intentionally handicap Deno? This is complete nonsense. If Bun wants to come out ahead of Deno, then they should also consider scaling with the number of CPU cores.

Single core CPUs are few and far between those days. Real-world performance is what matters.
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detaro 1344 days ago
And a real-world deployment of a single-threaded interpreter just runs multiple instances of it, so do and compare that. No need to "handicap" anything.
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zamalek 1344 days ago
My gut would say that you're paying 2x the overhead for a JS runtime. Of course, such a benchmark (edit: N instances of Bun and N instances of Deno) would be much more realistic/relevant.
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m00x 1344 days ago
But then you need twice the initial app memory. This can be substantial for larger apps.

There are definitely benefits of using multiple cores at once on a single app.

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detaro 1344 days ago
Sure. not an excuse to not benchmark it that way - if it struggles due to memory it'll show up after all.
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simpsond 1344 days ago
Copy on write fork mitigates some of that.
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squeaky-clean 1344 days ago
There was a recent post about a new Ruby server implementation. The author pointed out that for interpreted languages, forking quickly deviates and gains very little benefit from copy-on-write. However! Pre-warming the first instance and then forking afterwards brought the memory savings back down to compiled levels. No real point to my comment except that it was new knowledge to me, and that efficiency of forking really depends on the implementation of what/when you're forking.
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m00x 1337 days ago
It's not clear what OP is saying. I assumed multiple container instances, but even then, CoW isn't as efficient.
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koala_man 1344 days ago
> Single core CPUs are few and far between those days.

I would not be surprised if it's more common to run on a single CPU machine today than 10 years ago due to cloud VM instances.

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rtorr 1344 days ago
There is plans for multi core in the future already. They (bun) just aren’t there yet.
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