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		pjscott on June 21, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nginx directly to mysql. 3 - 4 times as fast as ph... I haven't used them, but there are a variety of PHP compilers, like phc or Facebook's HipHop. I hear that they can really speed up PHP code.

cookiecaper on June 22, 2010 [–]

I can't really tell from the phc page, but HipHop at least doesn't "speed up PHP code". It converts the code from PHP to C++. That isn't speeding up PHP, that's unraveling the PHP and respinning it as C++.

regularfry on June 22, 2010 | [–]

It's still speeding up PHP by compiling it, it's just using C++ as an (extra) intermediate representation.

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