[berntb]

>>Everything I've read says that 1 java server =~ 10 ruby servers

I believe that is roughly correct. I'd add two points:

- This goes about the same for all the scripting languages and the faster compiled languages. (+)

- You should consider, and might even earn time, by first doing a scripting language implementation and then port it to C/C++/Java/etc, instead of going to C/C++/etc directly.

(But all this is more or less conventional wisdom, afaik.)

(+) Some lisp variants might be able to be as expressive as a scripting language while almost as fast as a compiled language. I don't really know that world since quite a few years.