>From everything I've read, yes. (The speed improvements, not the ease of training or rapid development)
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are they right? > > ------------- > "One of the key values at Facebook is to move fast. For the past six > years, we have been able to accomplish a lot thanks to rapid pace of > development that PHP offers. As a programming language, PHP is simple. > Simple to learn, simple to write, simple to read, and simple to debug. > We are able to get new engineers ramped up at Facebook a lot faster > with PHP than with other languages, which allows us to innovate > faster. > > Today I'm excited to share the project a small team of amazing people > and I have been working on for the past two years; HipHop for PHP. > With HipHop we've reduced the CPU usage on our Web servers on average > by about fifty percent, depending on the page. Less CPU means fewer > servers, which means less overhead. This project has had a tremendous > impact on Facebook. We feel the Web at large can benefit from HipHop, > so we are releasing it as open source this evening in hope that it > brings a new focus toward scaling large complex websites with PHP. > While HipHop has shown us incredible results, it's certainly not > complete and you should be comfortable with beta software before > trying it out." > > Read full blog post : > http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=358 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:311551 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
