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by Gigablah 4860 days ago
I don't know about Rails, but as a Symfony2 user, it's actually a bit on the slower side compared to other PHP frameworks.

But ~300ms server response times is nothing if your end user has to wait 5-6 seconds for the page to render due to suboptimal frontend code. Plus, throw in varnish/nginx microcaching and requests drop to ~10ms regardless of your framework.
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mtts 4860 days ago
> But ~300ms server response times is nothing if your end user has to wait 5-6 seconds for the page to render due to suboptimal frontend code.

True for a single request, but once you start getting lots of concurrent requests all those ~300ms server response times start adding up quite quickly.

When Twitter started out, their use of ROR wasn't a problem. Once the service started to become popular, however, it was.

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