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by davidw 865 days ago
Years ago I was working on a system where an Android device communicated with a web server written in Erlang, and our Android guy was going off about how Erlang was "really slow" and that made no sense to me. So we looked at the interaction times, and it was certainly true that something was slow. Instead of the Erlang server, we swapped out Apache serving a static page. That was slow too. It turned out he'd been benchmarking the crappy wifi connection.