Ask Slashdot: Best Solution For an Email Discussion Forum?

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Tue Jun 26 21:49:34 PDT 2012


"Tim Krimm" <twkrimm at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:cpkwpdandxhsblfzqyaj at forum.dlang.org...
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> The D programming language people have successfully combined a mailing 
> list and tradition web forum into one. What's more, the web forum is 
> lightning fast to boot (fastest ever forum I've ever used - why can't 
> phpBB etc. be that fast?).
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> The exact specifics are unknown to me, but from what I've heard, they've 
> done a terrific job:
> http://forum.dlang.org/ [dlang.org]
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> Sweet Jesus Fuck that is fast.
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> Vladimir Panteleev (aka CyberShadow) has mentioned some of the reasons why 
> it's so fast at ycombinator [ycombinator.com]:
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> * Optimized and deflated static resources
> * Deflated HTML output
> * SQLite prepared statements
> * Integrated HTTP server (although it's currently in front of an Apache 
> proxy)
> * An optimized string builder 
> (https://github.com/CyberShadow/DAppenderResearch)
> * RAM cache of frequent DB queries
>

Yea, plus it's not written in PHP. That alone probably makes a noticable 
difference.




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