[captainmuon]

This site feels ridiculously fast. I've noticed that with other compiled frameworks too, e.g. CppCMS: http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main

I wonder if it is just the lightweight HTML the websites use, or if there is really so much speed to gain from using a compiled language.

[FraaJad]

Commenters on this site had similar observations about D language's forum, which is written in D.

http://forum.dlang.org/ Code: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

If one insists on writing a webapp in a C/C++ like language, D might be the sane way to do it.

[616c]

Nimrod is also becoming a real possibility, check out the Jester framework. I forget the other's name, but it did reasonably well on TehcEmPower benchmarks and runs behind the Mongrel2 web server via ZeroMQ sockets. Very cool stuff.

[pavlov]

Google Go is a popular way to do it.

[icebraining]

They're completely static pages with no images; it's not hard to get that kind of speed. For example, sqlite.com seems just as fast to me.

[nyir]

Yes, there are definitely huge speed gains possible and if you choose an implementation which is still interactive you get the benefits of both (I know one particular example in CL: teepeedee2, there are some blogs posts, e.g. http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-c10k or so).

[616c]

I have seen it come up many times, but is anyone still using it or tried it long term? I checked a year ago or so and it appears both Git commit-wise and blogwise Fremlin had moved on to better things, but when people dismiss Lisp, I don't say it out loud but I immediately think of this project.

[JimmyM]

I tested this page because most of the site is too small to get meaningful comparisons:

http://nopedotc.com/gallery/facedetector

It is faster to load than a highly optimised page which is half the size running on a more conventional stack.

The initial DNS request was the biggest saving on time, though, weirdly enough, followed by the time to connect. I have no idea why this is, or how to minimise DNS request time in general.

[cordite]

9.7k with everything inline can do that.

[pjmlp]

It is the speed of using a language with a compiler.