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		sophacles on April 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the web server scalability and speed are almost... This is logically just nonsense. So the php compiles to C++ now? The devs still write in php, they don't move to another language (well they use a somewhat restricted set of php, but a lot of places do that anyway for various reasons). It is as silly as saying anyone programming in a JVM language is just programming in Java, or anyone using a language which compiles to machine code is just using assembler. (implicitly of course!)

VladRussian on April 1, 2011 [–]

>anyone using a language which compiles to machine code is just using assembler

obviously it depends on the share of time the one spends tweaking generated code and the compiler's codegen.

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