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It's easier to fix problems than give up RAD tools. No reason why PHP can't be compiled down to almost bare-metal if necessary. I would expect this to be a trend in the future. Remember C++ was originally bloated and took some time to catch on, what with its double-indirection for function calls. (See Lippman's C++ object model book for details.) Nothing beat C for performance, until hardware caught up with C++. Now, nothing beats domain-specific languages like PHP for RAD productivity. Better and easier to add optimization to the back end than any other alternative.
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