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(Unverified)Feb 1st 2010 11:53PM

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One thing has to be clear: if PHP is "slow" to them, they are coding it wrong!

But if they think they can do better, they can always opt-out of php and create their own cgi-alike executable thingy to handle their requests.

Just my 2 cents... giving you a cherry to top it off: facebook has one of the worse codebases in the history of the internet. Maybe they should clean up their act before trying to imply that it's php. Bah, next they'll say it's their mySQL or what? * LOL *

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(Unverified)Feb 2nd 2010 9:31AM

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There seems to me here a bit of confusion on the article's choice of words... Mainly because one does not see a BIG operation like facebook going "OK, we'll migrate ALL our stuff to another language".

What's more likely is that they will code up something to make regular PHP faster, mainly because the last lines of the article say, and I quote:

"And yes, if you were wondering, Facebook is going to honor PHP's open source license and contribute their new code to the repository".

Sebasian, are you really up to the challenge of writing about this sorts of things?

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(Unverified)Feb 2nd 2010 9:35AM

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Sushi -- that's probably what they are doing... but we'll see when they announce it today! (I'll go check the news sources in a moment.)

Rebecca -- I haven't a clue what you're talking about. You should re-read your comments before you submit them, just to make sure they make sense.

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