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		propercoil on Nov 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM re-writing the code of any big project is insane. You are going to face those walls you faced in the past - again. Using this logic you would change the whole codebase every few years.. ridiculous

xxpor on Nov 30, 2012 [–]

Amazon did it in the 2002/2003 timeframe when they moved from Obidos (C++) to Gurupa (Perl/Mason).

pjmlp on Nov 30, 2012 | [–]

I though Amazon was still C++ at their main infrastructure.

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