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rbranson
on June 21, 2010
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Nginx directly to mysql. 3 - 4 times as fast as ph...
In other news, computer scientists discover that evented C code is faster than PHP.
kingkilr
on June 21, 2010
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This was promptly followed by 6 hours of pedants complaining that that isn't really computer science, but actually software engineering.
steveklabnik
on June 21, 2010
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And hours more spent arguing over if software can even be an engineering discipline or not.
makmanalp
on June 22, 2010
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Or whether "Computer Science" can actually be a science in the rigorous sense when it has nothing to do with the scientific method.
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