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Should Wikipedia's software be rewritten in Ruby on Rails? Discuss.
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The PHP interpreter is written in C or C++ (I forget which), but there are "features" of the PHP language that force it to be slow. Quercus gets around this (I think) by doing some one-time analysis to determine when those features are not being used, and accelerating the resulting intermediate language code when possible. There are other "accelerated PHP" systems that do similar things.

PHP is a fantastically crappy language.
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QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Mon 13th October 2008, 11:43am) *
PHP is a fantastically crappy language.

Yes, it is the crappiest web-development language out there, except for all the other ones. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)
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QUOTE(gomi @ Mon 13th October 2008, 1:51pm) *
QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Mon 13th October 2008, 11:43am) *
PHP is a fantastically crappy language.
Yes, it is the crappiest web-development language out there, except for all the other ones. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)
Exactly! (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)
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LamontStormstar   Should Wikipedia's software be rewritten in Ruby on Rails?  
Lar   Should Wikipedia's software be rewritten in R...  
Milton Roe   But I tell my clients not to replace perfectly go...  
LamontStormstar   Java would probably be even slower than PHP. When...  
Kelly Martin   Java would probably be even slower than PHP. When...  
KamrynMatika   Ruby is slower than PHP. Ruby can be 20x slower th...  
Somey   Personally, now that Delphi for PHP exists, I can...  
LamontStormstar   Personally, now that Delphi for PHP exists, I can...  
Somey   I'm not sure what Delphi for PHP is about. De...  
gomi   Hmm... isn't the native PHP interpreter writt...  
The Joy   I thought Brion Vibber and friends had switched to...  
KamrynMatika   I thought Brion Vibber and friends had switched t...  
Somey   PHP is a fantastically crappy language. It's a...  
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='gomi' post='135661' date='Mon 13th O...  
Kelly Martin   I'm a rank beginner compared to many of you bu...  
GlassBeadGame   I'm a rank beginner compared to many of you b...  
LamontStormstar   I know the site Twitter runs on RoR. Kelly, what ...  
LamontStormstar   Hmmm I thought Python was faster than PHP and Perl...  
gomi   Hmmm I thought Python was faster than PHP and Per...  
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