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Facebook makes heavy use of, and is one of the major contributors to, APC, the opcode cache. Most of the time, Facebook is hitting this cache, so its interprete
by carbocation 17y ago
Facebook makes heavy use of, and is one of the major contributors to, APC, the opcode cache. Most of the time, Facebook is hitting this cache, so its interpreted load is much, much less than this article estimates.
In other words, this article's author is railing against some imagined version of Facbook running some imagined implementation of PHP, not the Facebook that actually exists running PHP with opcode caching and memcached.
- leej 17y agofacebook may be a contributor but apc has only a minor release for the last 8 months.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoAPC has lots of users. Judging the userbase of a piece of software by the rate of major releases is like judging the speed of your car by the rate at which it breaks down. It's an opcode cache. It doesn't need to gain features until it can read email.