OSTalks » hiphop http://www.ostalks.com Open Source, Operating Systems, Offtopic Stuff! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:16:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Facebook: Hiphop for PHP Released As Open Source http://www.ostalks.com/2010/02/03/facebook-hiphop-for-php-released-as-open-source/ http://www.ostalks.com/2010/02/03/facebook-hiphop-for-php-released-as-open-source/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:06:07 +0000 clintcan http://www.ostalks.com/?p=230 After spending some weeks in rumor land, Facebook has now released a cross-compiling language converter for PHP as open source (php license), titled Hiphop for PHP.

What the application does is to programatically convert PHP source code into C++ and compile it with g++.

According to senior engineer Haiping Zhao, Hiphop has now been deployed to 90% of the Facebook traffic, six months after deployment.

For more information, please see the video below:

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