On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, drew wymore wrote: > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:08:59 -0800 > From: drew wymore <drew.wym...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic" > <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Facebook & PHP - massive speedup > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:44 PM, m0gely <m0g...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Carlos Konstanski wrote: >> >>> Funny... don't engineer your software better, instead make your crap >>> execute faster. Oracle might be interested in this. >> >> Isn't that what they did? Engineer the software to execute faster? You >> make what they did sound like an elementary hack. >> >> -- >> m0gely >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > I think he's referring to the fact that they're still using PHP which > plenty of people seem to dislike because it's had so many security > flaws and because too often newbies just write code without thinking > of the consequences and open more security holes. > > That said, I checked the dev blog post and it does look like it's > pretty interesting. > > Drew-
Thank you, that was exactly where I was going, except I was thinking about the efficiency of the language, not the n00bs that use it. Writing a monster website with zillions of users in any interpreted language seems silly to me. Fixing it by making PHP a compiled language is one way to solve the problem, I guess. A simpler solution might have been to translate the codebase to a compiled language. Even simpler yet would have been to do so a long time ago, or even start there. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
