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virtualwhys on Jan 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: 2012: A Year in PHP

> Any backend will scale if it runs in parallel and you throw enough hardware at it.

Note to self: research (non-existent) parallel processing in (single threaded) PHP; also, find enough hardware to make PHP scale ;-)

pestaa on Jan 9, 2013 [–]

Threading is one way to parallelize software. Scalability requirements are finite, therefore required hardware is, too.

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