PHP 100-Million-Row Challenge Winners Announced
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Summary
The article announces the winners of the 100-million-row challenge in PHP, a programming competition where participants had to parse a large dataset of page visits into JSON format. It congratulates the top three winners and mentions additional prize categories, then provides information about the competition structure, submission process via GitHub pull requests, and the competition timeline from February 24 to March 15, 2026.
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· 5 pulled🥇 First place: xHeaven
🥈 Second place: AcidBurn86
🥉 Third place: l0gicnz
Welcome to the 100-million-row challenge in PHP! Your goal is to parse a data set of page visits into a JSON file.
This competition will run for two weeks: from Feb 24 to March 15, 2026.
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