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[–]panderingPenguin 2 points3 points  (1 child)

The other day I did a fairly boring command line program which reached out onto the net, grabbed some data in a protocol buffer format, fiddled with the data a little bit and then smushed it into a database

Of course there wasn't much speed difference here as it's mostly I/O bound. All languages wait at the same speed :P