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Hip Hop

oeb · 2010-02-03 07:58:07

So, facebook have went and written a 'source code transformer' that converts php to c++ and compiles it. Apparently they experience 50% less CPU useage (It has been used on facebook,com for the last 6 months. http://developers.facebook.com/news.php http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/02/facebook_hiphop_unveiled/ What do…

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So, facebook have went and written a 'source code transformer' that converts php to c++ and compiles it. Apparently they experience 50% less CPU useage (It has been used on facebook,com for the last 6 months.

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/02/facebook_hiphop_unveiled/

What do you think?
Probably Useless for the small developers, like most of us here, but we could see more really big sites popping up running in PHP.

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