Google has published a paper (PDF) comparing performance of four programming languages, C++, its own language Go, Java and Scala. A team at Google created a "simple and compact" benchmark that didn't take advantage of language-specific features. An algorithm was implemented using each language's "idiomatic container classes, looping constructs, and memory/object allocation schemes."

Let’s begin with Common Lisp, Scheme, Fortran, Smalltalk, C, C++, Objective C, Ada, Java, Javascript, C#, D, Prolog, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, Clojure, Lua, Forth, Factor, Erlang, OCaml, F#, Clean, Haskell, Scala and start the elimination process.

One of the most important parts in the web is a browser. Browser is the window, through which web users interact with web applications and other users. Users are always talks with web applications through browsers.

Finagle is a library for building asynchronous RPC servers and clients in Java, Scala, or any JVM language.

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Oracle released a technology preview this week a new version of MySQL that adds support for a Memcached plugin daemon for accessing InnoDB, MySQL's default storage engine. It's available from MySQL Labs. The plugin daemon is only available for Linux at this time.

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