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I think this is where many run into issues with this story. This project was never really meant to be something to help the PHP community as a whole. It was mea
by mikeryan 17y ago
I think this is where many run into issues with this story. This project was never really meant to be something to help the PHP community as a whole. It was meant to be a tool to help Facebook and to that end they've succeeded very well. 3 engineers + 2 years = 50% CPU improvement without having to rewrite the whole PHP codebase from scratch? That's a great achievement for Facebook but YMMV.
- staunch 17y agoSeriously. $100k * 3 devs * 2 years = $600k to buy half as many app servers in the next year(s)? They saved Facebook tens of millions of dollars. I should imagine their next performance evaluation will be quite smooth. This is what people mean when they talk about great hackers being 10x as productive...
- robryan 17y agoIt would have been a great freedom for the devs, at a company of facebook's size it wouldn't have been disastrous had they not really achieved a great enough performance boost to justify it's use.