"VKontakte" is now loaded twice as fast - Russian Newspaper

social network “VKontakte” began to work in half the time after the transfer of program code on a special programming language KPHP. This was announced on his page resource founder Pavel Durov.

“At the end of May, before the start of the holiday season, daily attendance” VKontakte “has reached another record – nearly 50 million people. This is when we have completed the transfer of all the code” VKontakte “on the compiled programming language that has been developed over the year – KPHP. In result, virtually all the pages have loaded more than 2 times faster, “- he wrote.

To his post Pavel Durov attached a few graphs, which show that the average load time of personal pages fell from 0.25 to just over 0.1 seconds, the boot dialogue – from 0,175 to less than 0.1 seconds, News – from 0.25 to 0.1 seconds.

“KPHP supports most of the standard normal PHP, but is much faster and provides additional optimization. Later we will provide code KPHP in open access for all developers of the world,” – said the founder of “VKontakte”.

Earlier

Durov reported that the social network is expanding its technical unit in Frankfurt.