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Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed
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."
Microsoft isn't exactly known for speed either.
If "Facebook" buys PHP and makes it similar to ".Net", i.e. kills it, it would be really sad.
Speed of "Java" and ".Net"? Is it a joke? "Java" hangs all the time and the ".Net" code to do a simple task is so convoluted that it is just ridiculous.
"Java" is a creation of "Sun" Co. We all use "Open Office" of the "Sun". It is free.
But did you try to switch on French or German language spell-checking in "Open Office"? I always think when I do it that their chief engineers should be really stupid. Indeed a little boy is needed to say that the king is naked.
As for ".Net" I do not trust it either. The creator of this language does not want the Internet to become what it can become, because it will damage their core business. Their natural interest is to slow down the Internet, at least for a year or two more (trillion dollars more). That is why the "Internet Explorer" is 4 times slower than other browsers. That is why ".Net" is so confusing, slow and obfuscating.
Oh, yes. They have 5000+ strong marketing department, which succeeded to convince you otherwise. No surprise, they spend billions on it each year.
But if the PHP will be bought out, as the MySQL has already been, it would mean the end of the Internet as we know it. Because this is the good open technology that just works.
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