Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Why PHP? Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:15:38 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: <514221DA.1050804@arnowelzel.de> References: <17a9677a-3785-4b5f-a4cf-e78ffd5191a1@googlegroups.com> <513CAA86.5040606@arnowelzel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="94932bfd1af4237031c9a9a63d5b1416"; logging-data="11127"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/dMP3zPjqIDrJYxCB3PzcNxBeprcjsIGU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:dtqeREeLYfC4SNwlmrKe20qUPb4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:8664 Christoph Becker, 2013-03-10 21:59: > Arno Welzel wrote: > >> Well - Facebook has enough money to run *many* servers. I think in this >> case it is nearly irrelevant if they use PHP, C# or whatever - as long >> as the backend (database, storage etc.) is capable of handling the load. > > Apparently it is not that irrelevant; otherwise they wouldn't have > developed HipHop. Indeed - Facebook does not use "native" PHP - instead they compile everything from PHP to C++ and then to native machine code ;-) -- Arno Welzel http://arnowelzel.de http://de-rec-fahrrad.de