"The big difference is that the code changes I made are substantially safer than running a program and having it silently hang the system. [...] Really, this is what those cycle-counting programmers from 1985 dreamed of."
"Would you be surprised to discover that only about 1% of all the transistors on your modern CPU exist to ever compute anything? And that the other 99% of your CPU's transistors are essentially dedicated to nothing but hiding memory latency?"
"A page-cached site will get you about 3,000 requests per second, thereabouts, and a simple GET request won't even hit your application; you're serving raw html through the webserver. You will soon start thinking of rails as an HTML generator"
simpy
