Rasmus made a bunch of reasonable comments and the Times article cut and spliced them to try to stir up some noise. i.e., he described the project as a "nifty

Rasmus made a bunch of reasonable comments and the Times article cut and spliced them to try to stir up some noise. i.e., he described the project as a "nifty trick", not "just a nifty trick", which is an important distinction. Also, he advocates -- shock -- tuning your PHP code before turning to tools like this. ...Somehow, that turned into him asking if it was "just a nifty trick". This should probably be flagged, it's nonsense.