The benchmark with 1B rows in this blogpost seems irrelevant for comparing performance of different programming languages.

It seems like the execution time of a program would be dominated by loading data from the file. And a lot of people posted solution with specs of cpu but not specs of disk (hdd, ssd, raid) although that seems more relevant.

Why would they compare languages and solutions in this way?

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    6 months ago

    Also big “enterprise” Software usually becomes slow due to fundamental issues or issues in the architecture.

    For example I worked on maintaining an old Java EE project and people there constantly made multiple sequencial HTTP requests despite the requests not being dependent on one another.