alt Hacker NewsThey got a 1000x speed up just by switching languages.
I highly doubt the issue was serialization latency, unless they were doing something stupid like reserializing the same payload over and over again.
They got a 1000x speed up just by switching languages.
I highly doubt the issue was serialization latency, unless they were doing something stupid like reserializing the same payload over and over again.
Well, for starters, they replace the RPC call with an in-process function call. But my point is anybody who's surprised that working with JSON at scale is expensive (because hey it's just JSON!) shouldn't be surprised.