David Ansermot Web Developer / TYPO3 Integrator

HipHop for PHP – what now ?

6 months ago, Facebook unveiled Hip Hop, with impressive performance gains.

The announcement corresponds to reality, reducing CPU consumption by about 50%. But the team did not stop there, and was successful in optimizing a bit more speed and thus performance. Although the code is open source and begins to be deployed to other PHP projects like Drupal, MediaWiki, phpBB, WordPress.

Scott of Facebook shows the direction of the next estimates as support for FreeBSD and 32-bit environments or as Mac OS X.

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Source : Facebook's Engineering Note