Making use of C++ to speed up PHP
<p>I saw this post on Sitepoint quoting a statement by Rasmus Lerdorf which goes (according to Sitepoint) as follows:</p>

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  <p>How can you make PHP fast? Well, you can’t" was his quick answer. PHP is simply not fast enough to scale to Yahoo levels. PHP was never meant for those sorts of tasks. "Any script based language is simply not fast enough". To get the speed that is necessary for truly massive web systems you have to use compiled C++ extensions to get true, scaleable architecture. That is what Yahoo does and so do many other PHP heavyweights.</p>
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<p>Intrigued by the statement (not to mention the fact that up to now, all I was doing in PHP was small database-based applications), I was wondering how I could "use compiled C++ extensions" with PHP. </p>

<p>Any ideas or resources?</p>
