readwriteweb.com — Several anonymous sources have confirmed that Facebook has indeed been making some changes to the basic PHP runtime environment. It will increase speed by around 80% and offer a just-in-time compilation engine that will offer a number of advantages.
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globalunlockFeb 2, 2010
Facebook is one of the top social site now and it has millions of users around the globe.It is just right that they should make some changes on their site.
cynicaltylerFeb 2, 2010
If you as an application developer *have* to dedicate resources to improving the language you're working with, it isn't the right language anymore. Facebook might be lauded for improving PHP, but it seems to me like they just painted themselves into a corner by their large-scale dedication to PHP. Thus the only way to fix their performance issues was to brute force a fix to PHP's inefficiencies. This might be a decent technical solution, but it was a bad business solution from my vantage point.
jokoonFeb 3, 2010
A social website art.
mattguitarFeb 15, 2010
Digger admitting a mistake? What's next? Diggers getting dates?
bingopowerFeb 15, 2010
You can do it right, or you can do it in Java.