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by Iftheshoefits 4315 days ago
I'm not convinced. There are benchmarks[0] that strongly suggest a choice of language is as much a factor in general performance (not merely I/O tasks) as platform (though these frequently go together) and hardware.

[0]http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9: in which python frameworks generally perform poorly compared to...anything else other than Ruby