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The author forgets that speed for huge, huge, huge sites is a very important factor for those that visit Facebook. If the first few pages load slowly for even
by invisible 17y ago
The author forgets that speed for huge, huge, huge sites is a very important factor for those that visit Facebook. If the first few pages load slowly for even one person, that may be them missing out on 3 more users/viewers (via word-of-mouth).
And they're not "rewriting" PHP. They are improving the speed of it by compiling it to a lower level. This is just citing HipHop as far as I can tell.