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		ktharavaad on Oct 1, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rails Idioms + Django Templates + Erlang Power = C... >>>Chicago Boss is fully asynchronous, using one single process to handle hundreds or thousands of simultaneous requests<<< >>>All other web frameworks will break down and cry if you ask them to process more than a few dozen simultaneous requests on a single machine.<<<< Isn't this what facebook Tornado, Orbited and all the other servers using select()/epoll() solves?

tptacek on Oct 1, 2009 | [–]

Erlang's whole I/O and scheduling model is optimized for this design in a way that Python's simply isn't.

Kaizyn on Oct 1, 2009 | [–]

Sure, but they aren't using Erlang.

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