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Tim Yang

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Tim Yang's personal blog at timyang.net covers programming and systems. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Nginx, erlang, golang, java http server benchmarks”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2009–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its benchmark post comparing C, Erlang and Java performance. One commenter cited it as evidence that Erlang beats Go on throughput, against assumptions about BEAM latency.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Nginx, erlang, golang, java http server benchmarks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. I have assumed BEAM has similar latency to Go and is garbage collected? Here is some benchmarks where Erlang beats Go in throughput: https://timyang.net/programming/c-erlang-java-performance/ https://stressgrid.com/blog/benchmarking_go_vs_node_vs_elixi...

    Comment linking /programming/c-erlang-java-performance/

    on “Lovely Week with Elixir”
  2. Submitted Nginx, erlang, golang, java http server benchmarks as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted MemcacheDB, Tokyo Tyrant, Redis performance test as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Go lanuage performance test vs C, Erlang and Java as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion

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