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Facebook Could Eliminate 75% of Its Servers by Changing Their Programming Code

• chaosprophet 17y ago
  Summary: Some guy posted on a forum that by switching Facebook from PHP to C++, 22500 servers could be switched off. He seems to have arrived at this conclusion by pulling numbers out of thin air.
  • flogic 17y ago
    While the numbers may be wonky, it's an interesting enough topic. I wouldn't advocate C++ but it not like various languages don't have JIT compilers these days.
• imurray 17y ago
  The original blog post was posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006497 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006497
• jtopper 17y ago
  Isn't most of Facebook's PHP a view layer around a load of custom C/C++ modules which do all the heavy lifting anyway?