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That's a load of FUD and a fabricated horror story. Computationally intensive business logic should be implemented as a C/C++ extension in any case because PHP
by thomasmallen 18y ago
That's a load of FUD and a fabricated horror story. Computationally intensive business logic should be implemented as a C/C++ extension in any case because PHP is still essentially a web language and a glue language. Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP's creator, has stated as much.
Any claim that PHP can't scale is at this point a dead letter, as are more dated claims that Java is too slow, etc.
- zmimon 18y agoWell, I think you completely missed my point, since I didn't anywhere say that PHP can't scale in the sense you are talking about.
- thomasmallen 18y agoWhile we're at it, PHP is pretty bad for desktop GUIs and artificial intelligence...
- blasdel 18y agoBut as soon as you get into building extensions to mod_php, you've lost everything that's great about PHP: the deployment story / execution model.
- thomasmallen 18y agoAnd if you have the capability and good reasons to build your own extensions, deployment probably isn't much of a concern. But building and loading extensions into PHP is not very difficult, assuming dependencies are already met.