Re: HipHop for PHP

["Kevin Schroeder" <kevin@xxxxxxxx>]

They take their PHP application, convert it to C++ in some kind of
intermediate format (which I have not seen) and then compile using g++.
That binary, which includes their whole application, is then deployed to
those 10's of thousands of web servers.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:38 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] HipHop for PHP

From: Aaron Bartell
> I would say that FaceBook couldn't run on the PHP of 6
> years ago without having an incredibly huge server farm.


The facilitator at the conference where HipHop was presented indicated
that FaceBook had "tens of thousands of web servers".  It was an off the
cuff remark.  Did anyone else catch that?

It's actually not clear to me what HipHop is.  It sounded like they
transformed their PHP code into C, and compiled it.  And rewrote the PHP
runtime engine to evoke it.  So that Facebook is essentially a C
application.  Is that right?

-Nathan.