Phillip Pearson: "Prototyping a very fast XML-RPC server."

11/2002
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12. Dec. 2002

Phillip Pearson: "Prototyping a very fast XML-RPC server." - fast? Ok. But why C++? Yuck ...

Phillip Pearson Dec. 20, 2002, 3:36 a.m.

Because it needs to be *really* fast ;-)

C++ is as quick as C, but more flexible. It's the quickest language I know. LISP or OCaml could be better, but I don't feel like learning them just yet.

hugo Dec. 20, 2002, 12:58 p.m.

Yeah, and then you post stuff on your blog about quirks in C++ :-)

BTW: I did once an experiment by implementing a program to parse news postings and pull out FAQ postings in Oberon-2, C++ and OCaml. Guess what version was the fastest. No, it wasn't the Oberon-2 one ;-)