Following this rather comical interview with a Facebook "employee"...
Does anybody have any details on the Hyper PHP (now renamed to HipHop) that those smart as balls Facebook guys have developed?
Following this rather comical interview with a Facebook "employee"...
Does anybody have any details on the Hyper PHP (now renamed to HipHop) that those smart as balls Facebook guys have developed?
I'd be surprised if the release is called HyperPHP, as that's also the name of an established web host
Looks like someone tried to explain caching/opcodes to someone without any programming knowledge.
"... You see? Doing this is like, putting an H in front of PHP, H as in Hyper. So we get, Hyper-PHP, or HPHP. And it's super fast ..."
Nop ... its not a myth
The concept is Awesome.. You can get you PHP site complied into HPHP ! then it ll work like java !:P
Maybe a myth, maybe still in development. But it's going to be posted here .
Now there's a rumor of some sort of PHP runtime release from Facebook on Tuesday Feb 2. That might be Hyper PHP.
If performance is an issue, surely you'd look at e.g. Quercus instead ? (http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/quercus/) (I've never looked at Quercus, so I can't say much else)