Re: HipHop for PHP

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The facilitator at the conference where HipHop was presented indicated that
FaceBook had "tens of thousands of web servers".

Wow mamma!  Did you find that online or were you there?  Makes you wonder
how many big IBMi machines they would need to facilitate that
infrastructure.  I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook was purchased by Google
in the next few years and then use Google's grid to run on.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.