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0 pointsfauigerzigerk3y ago0 comments

Yes, good point. But you have to wonder what kind of engineering effort went into scaling PHP and MySQL up to the point where they decided to build a compiler and a storage engine.

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rafark3y ago· 1 in thread

When you have half a billion users that both read and write all day, you have to optimize, no matter the tech.

fauigerzigerkOP3y ago

That is undeniably true, but I do think the starting point still matters.

disgruntledphd23y ago

It was much, much, much cheaper than a rewrite would have been, that's why they did it.

Edit: also, in 2004 when they got started, what else could they have used?

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