With HipHop, Facebook Merges PHP Flexibility and C++ Raw Speed

As one of the biggest websites in the world and certainly one of the most complex, Facebook is looking at any trick in the book to squeeze some more performance out of its infrastructure. One of the most ambitious undertakings, one it kept quiet about until now, HipHop for PHP is a project d... [ read more >> ]

Facebook reveals HipHop, a new project which converts PHP code into C++ for a performance boost of as much as 50 percent

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Facebook reveals HipHop, a new project which converts PHP code into C++ for a performance boost of as much as 50 percent