Archive: c++

We told you about HipHop a while back and we were pretty excited about it. Now Facebook have decided to develop a virtual machine to allow dynamic translation and faster results than their previous interpreter based approach. This is paving the way for further performance improvements and ease of development. You can read the full [...]

Very interesting this one: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?story=358&blog;=1 With HipHop we’ve reduced the CPU usage on our Web servers on average by about fifty percent sounds good to me HipHop for PHP isn’t technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses [...]