They're not the first people to have encountered this problem, you start with a small prototype and need to get it going quickly so you build it in a rapid development tool or a simple interpretive language. This has the advantage of making you fast to market.
Then you add a few new features and a few more and starting getting a fast rising customer base and two things happen: 1. The runtime overhead of the original solution has become excessive 2. Your product is now so big that moving it to another platform has become prohibitively expensive Having a mechanical translator for the more efficient platform is probably the best solution. I'm surprised it wasn't more cost effective for them to use someone else's translator though. Bruce On 3 February 2010 12:47, Sid Bachtiar <[email protected]> wrote: > One problem I see is that if you use it, you are then also maintaining > C++ codes. > > Sure it's supposed to be flawless, but if something is not working and > you don't code in C++, what do you do then? > > No problem for Facebook, they have big team to cope with extra layer > of complexity. > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:19 AM, lenz <[email protected]> wrote: >> hi, >> >> in case someone missed the announcement of facebook today. they open >> sourced their php to c++ compiler today: >> >> http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=358 >> >> cheers >> lenz >> >> >> -- >> iWantMyName.com >> painless domain registration (finally) >> >> -- >> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] > > > > -- > Blue Horn Ltd - System Development > http://bluehorn.co.nz > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > -- Bruce Clement When a co-worker said he didn't want his kids getting the H1N1 vaccine because it was too new and "they haven't tested it enough", I blurted out something like, "So you'd rather test a new and poorly understood virus on them instead?" I'm not entirely proud of fighting vague and irrational fear of the unknown by invoking vague and irrational fear of the unknown, but I think it did make an impression. Petréa Mitchell -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
