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Kristina Chodorow
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Kristina Chodorow's personal blog at kchodorow.com covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in the 'PHP the Wrong Way' discussion, where commenters debate database access in PHP, including Doctrine ORM performance versus SQL and arrays. The comments do not judge the post itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Snail in a Turtleneck
What Hacker News says?
I agree, Doctrine has performance problems. I did some microbenchmarks too. But you could try to optimize (or write your own custom) mapping code, or maybe you could load less entities or write a better ORM. Sometimes you have to use SQL queries too (when the result of a query cannot be mapped to entities). The "SQL and arrays" approach is much worse and doesn't scale. Without ORM and classes you will get undocument…
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