HipHop for PHP
(This applies to this and the next two sections. I’m reordering parts for clarity. This was mostly given by Haiping. A performance discussion (not recorded) was given by Sonya, the projects manager. Walkthrough of some of the code was done by Ian Proctor.)
Facebook, Palo Alto, California
Sony DSC-WX1
1/30sec @ ƒ5.6, ISO400, 17.9mm (100mm)
An early iteration of the logo.
“Yo, PHP, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish rendering this page, but C++ had one of the highest performing benchmarks of all time!”
[IN PROGRESS: THE STUFF BELOW WILL JUST CONFUSE YOU]
- source code transformer
- why c++? easy mapping, + want people to maintain the C++
phalanger? – MS bought the team, they’ve disappeared
phc? PHP to C allows zend compiler
July 2009 0%
90% today (January) in terms of traffic on 85% of the servers
March->sept 2009 production, testing, fixing
eval: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf If eval() is the answer, you’re almost certainly asking the wrong question
1 million lines = 500MB binary
use Google Gold as linker
compiled using dist_cc = 30 nodes and a few minutes
deploy using bittorrent
(more at Velocity conference)
port takeover is open-sourced
