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rewqfdsa
on Dec 26, 2014
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Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
What advances in computer science were necessary for HipHop? It's a bog-standard JIT system of the kind we'd been building for years. Sure, it's well-executed, but it's hardly a "revolutionary project" to those who weren't born yesterday.
wallflower
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Ok, fair enough. HipHop was not the first JIT. I'd like to hear your opinion on MapReduce.
rewqfdsa
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More interesting is fundamental database progress like the work Google's done on F1. Now _that_'s an advancement in the state of the art.
hacknat
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@wallflower xargs?
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