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by withinboredom 959 days ago
> The ladder uses Golangs fiber/fasthttp, which is significantly faster than Python

I have a feeling that this performance difference is practically imperceptible to regular humans. It's like optimizing CPU performance when the bottleneck is the database.

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Not for any publicly hosted instance, it’s not. We’re not talking about the time it takes to perform one request but the scalability it affords a small vm to handle so many requests in parallel when it is being used by the general public.