Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed

VonGuard writes "Facebook has gotten fed up with the speed of PHP. The company has been working on a skunkworks project to rewrite the PHP runtime, and on Tuesday of this week, they will be announcing the availability of their new PHP runtime as an open source project. The rumor around this began last week when the Facebook team invited some of the core PHP contributors to their campus to discuss some new open source project. I've written up everything I know about this story on the SD Times Blog."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/31/0252201/Facebook-Rewrites-PHP-Runtime-For-Speed?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/31/0252201"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/31/0252201/Facebook-Rewrites-PHP-Runtime-For-Speed?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lDFKvZjMqwyrNSQLS2Sw5tmO1hM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lDFKvZjMqwyrNSQLS2Sw5tmO1hM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lDFKvZjMqwyrNSQLS2Sw5tmO1hM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lDFKvZjMqwyrNSQLS2Sw5tmO1hM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/ENP1id1Krms" height="1" width="1"/

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