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japaget on Sept 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slackware 14.0 released

Slackware.com is currently overloaded. For more info, try Distrowatch:

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07475

protolif on Sept 29, 2012 [–]

Obviously, this is because PHP doesn't scale.

elorant on Sept 29, 2012 | [–]

I don't know if you've ever heard about a site called Facebook.

pjmlp on Sept 29, 2012 | | [–]

Which translates PHP to C++ code via HipHop compiler.

WayneDB on Sept 29, 2012 | | [–]

So, I guess they found a way to scale PHP then, didn't they?

<Insert obligatory comment about how all code is translated to something else before execution>

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