How big is your business? Facebook has poured immense resources into speeding up PHP. It makes sense for them. It doesn't even remotely make sense for me. Howe

How big is your business? Facebook has poured immense resources into speeding up PHP. It makes sense for them. It doesn't even remotely make sense for me. However, people tend to underestimate this sort of thing in general. Even since before programming... we have adages about the importance of sharpening the axe precisely because people have been hacking away with metaphorical and literal dull axes hoping to avoid needing to sharpen them for a long time. Sometimes you just won't be able to convince a business person of the importance of stopping work for a moment to sharpen the axe, because all they see is the work stopping. I don't have a solution to that level of lack of wisdom in a leader. These are the people who save $200 per programmer on computer hardware at the cost of 5 hours of productivity lost... per week. Some battles just come pre-lost.