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by runevault 5184 days ago
except facebook wrote a compiler to get their PHP into c++ because it was too slow (but too much code to actually rewrite it).
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Probably only because at their scale a 10% or even 5% reduction in the amount of servers equals millions of dollars a year.

For anyone with a handful of servers PHP is acceptable as the additional cost of 2-3 servers is not really that high.