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PHP too slow for Facebook, builds its own faster version

It seems the world's largest user of PHP -- itself the Internet's most popular programming language -- has decided to build and compile its own version to speed up its operation. Facebook, which has over 350 million users, is due to announce its changes this week, but speculative rumors are bouncing all over the place! The SD Times suggests that a new in-house runtime was built -- the bit of ...