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Ilia Alshanetsky
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Ilia Alshanetsky's personal blog at ilia.ws covers programming and web. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ilia Alshanetsky's PHP talk slides on performance, including PHPTek 2007 and PHP Quebec 2009, as resources from people working on the PHP engine.
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What Hacker News says?
Despite google dropping ball on this one, some good may come from it having spurred Gwynne Raskind's reply: Anyone out there writing PHP might find real optimization value from Alex Songe comments, concluding with (following Gwynne's article): Good resources (written by the guys who actually work on the php engine): http://ilia.ws/files/phptek2007_performance.pdf (13 MB) http://ilia.ws/files/phpquebec_2009.pdf ( 1.1…
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