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Like building the entire system in PHP, then throwing HipHop at it? Seems to work though.
by r0muald 13y ago
Like building the entire system in PHP, then throwing HipHop at it? Seems to work though.
- mseebach 13y agoI'm not convinced that HipHop is an example of that. As I understand it, HipHop allowed Facebook to increase performance hugely with a very modest investment, and very low risk. Rewriting all the critical bits of Facebook in a different language to realize the same speed-up would likely have required a lot more resources and been orders of magnitude more risky.
- Crito 13y agoThe difficulty in "rewriting [critical, or otherwise] bits of Facebook" is probably related to the same decisions that make "single repo for everything" the logical choice for the site.