Yup, I tend to agree. Via that post I ended up on a post by Terry Chay with some much more interesting quantitive analysis of PHP usage at Facebook: http://ter

Yup, I tend to agree. Via that post I ended up on a post by Terry Chay with some much more interesting quantitive analysis of PHP usage at Facebook: http://terrychay.com/article/hiphop-for-faster-php.shtml/4 http://terrychay.com/article/hiphop-for-faster-php.shtml/4 One of the things that really surprised me was the observation that PHP has a much higher CPU utilization for comparable operations than other higher level languages.