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by usamec 5145 days ago
Trying to build fast platform on top of a superslow language is a joke.
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fsniper 5145 days ago
PHP as a platform is not super slow. Have you ever visited shootout.alioth.debian.org? most of the time PHP performs better than ruby, python or perl. It's up to 3 times faster.
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Kudos 5145 days ago
What are you comparing PHP to when calling it super slow? As far as I'm aware, it performs in the same league as Python, Ruby and Perl.

There are reasons that this may be a joke, yours isn't valid.

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