Is Facebook Souping Up PHP?
Found on eWEEK on Sunday, 31 January 2010
According to Alex Handy at SDTimes, Facebook is set to make some kind of major announcement regarding PHP on or around Tuesday, Feb. 2.
Handy also said: "So, why has Facebook rewritten the PHP runtime? Because PHP is obviously too slow for their tastes."
Handy had better used PHP for his own site instead of ASP so it wouldn't be down for days now. Anyway, if Facebook really wants to speed up PHP, it should do so by contributing to the original source instead of rewriting everything from scratch. It doesn't sound like the core developers were involved so they would feel pretty duped by that move. If the two engines cannot be merged, wel'll just end up with the original stable PHP which is used by millions of sites and under a community development and FecebookPHP which is basically just a fork.