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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by jonknee on Monday July 30, 2018 @05:13PM (#17648095)
Because for a long time (critically, when PHP was very popular) it was quite slow. It has gotten better, but a lot of people haven't used it since it was slow.
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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by jack9 on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:47PM (#17650402)
Quite slow compared to what?

PHP was popular when it had MySQL bindings that were always up to date with MySQL changes and apache PHP setup was simplistic. Thus the LAMP stack, right? It has always been rather fast, in the larger ecosystem of web scripting languages (especially if you avoided particular BIFs) but it got a LOT faster in 7 as the slowest bits were optimized alongside everything else.

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