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5) It scalability is a joke. I've worked as a Java contractor at a number of places and what a PERL/PHP/Python solution can get done in 5 boxes, it takes Java 3

5) It scalability is a joke. I've worked as a Java contractor at a number of places and what a PERL/PHP/Python solution can get done in 5 boxes, it takes Java 30-40 boxes. This is NOT an exagerration. I wonder why Twitter is moving their Ruby codebase to Java and Facebook is building a JVM backend of their PHP compiler .

randomdata 14y ago
> I wonder why ... Facebook is building a JVM backend of their PHP compiler . For fun, it seems. Facebook also built a PyPy backend[1], and even their own VM[2]. [1] http://morepypy.blogspot.ca/2012/07/hello-everyone.html http://morepypy.blogspot.ca/2012/07/hello-everyone.html [2] https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/tree/master/src/runtime/vm https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/tree/master/src/runti...