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by MonstraG 474 days ago
Oh no it's the bouncy ball chart.

Please, if you have enough time, watch this https://youtu.be/EH12jHkQFQk

and avoid making any decisions using this chart.
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ashishb 474 days ago
> and avoid making any decisions using this chart.

I did not mention that chart at all in the blog post. I just used this as a nice illustration.

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raverbashing 474 days ago
Honestly yeah

It's an artificial benchmark that means nothing in production

Also the article does not bring much to the table except of python whining

"Oh the Go dockerfile is smaller" Yes you compiled it and is running a binary. Big woop. Funny how the author not doing the same comparison with node

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ashishb 474 days ago
> "Oh the Go dockerfile is smaller" Yes you compiled it and is running a binary. Big woop. Funny how the author not doing the same comparison with node

If I did that with Node, you would say what about Ruby. If I did that with Ruby, you would say what about Zig. There is no end to the list of languages.

> It's an artificial benchmark that means nothing in production

It was a cover illustration, I did not mention that at all. In fact, I demonstrated the resource consumption of Python's docker image. If you have suggestions to make the Python one, I am all ears.

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raverbashing 474 days ago
> If I did that with Node, you would say what about Ruby.

No, because the comparison here is runtimes of interpreted languages

Comparing a compiled binary to the python/node/ruby runtime is comparing Apples to Oranges

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ashishb 473 days ago
Why do I have to restrict myself to interpreted languages only?
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