Facebook Open-Sources HipHop PHP Compiler Software

Earlier this morning, Facebook officially made their new PHP “compiler,” called HipHop, available as open source software. In the blog post by Haiping Zhao, HipHop for PHP is described as a “source code transformer” which has allowed Facebook to nearly double their PHP operating speeds, at the cost of minor omissions such rarely used functions in the PHP language. For a site which serves nearly 400 billion PHP-based page views every month, that is an incredible performance boost.

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