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0 pointsmappu14y ago0 comments

    start the interpreter, load the code, start executing

For pedantry's sake, there is of course FastCGI and/or mod_php to keep the interpreter alive, and APC to keep the code around.

Hiphop is of course much faster.

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stickfigure14y ago· 1 in thread

If you have the interpreter live and the code loaded, you're circumventing the parent's "point" that GAE is inefficient because it keeps your application running in a process vis-a-vis the standard way appservers work in java, python, ruby, node, etc.

IgorPartola14y ago

The difference is that PHP's interpreter is stateless, while a Django app server is not.

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