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Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed

Posted by timothy on from the if-not-this-then-something-else dept.

VonGuard writes "Facebook has gotten fed up with the speed of PHP. The company has been working on a skunkworks project to rewrite the PHP runtime, and on Tuesday of this week, they will be announcing the availability of their new PHP runtime as an open source project. The rumor around this began last week when the Facebook team invited some of the core PHP contributors to their campus to discuss some new open source project. I've written up everything I know about this story on the SD Times Blog."

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  1. Re:is this being used now? by Daengbo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try the "Lite" version. It's much faster, and doesn't have that annoying chat bar.

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  2. Misleading Summary (surprise!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From TFA: UPDATE: After sifting through the comments here and elsewhere, I'm inclined to agree with the folks who are saying that Facebook will be introducing some sort of compiler for PHP.

    Not a fork. Not as newsworthy as implied.

  3. Was revealed 3 weeks ago by insider by diretalk · · Score: 5, Informative

    This PHP compiler item was revealed three weeks ago by a Facebook employee. Read at http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-internet-5-anonymous-facebook-employee/?full=yes