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A virtual machine for executing programs written in Hack.

75 mentions on Hacker News by 65 people: 7 stories, 68 comments · first 2010-02-03 · latest 2025-01-02

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  1. …but compared to other PHP projects I've worked on their infrastructure looks nice and modern. [1]: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php [2]: https://github.com/facebook/xhp
    comment by eslaught · 2012-08-24 · in Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS
  2. Facebook's PHP is not normal PHP: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php
    comment by gaius · 2012-08-14 · in Facebook Moving To The JVM
  3. …and even their own VM[2]. [1] http://morepypy.blogspot.ca/2012/07/hello-everyone.html [2] https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/tree/master/src/runti...
    comment by randomdata · 2012-08-13 · in Hate Java? Maybe you should hate the industries stuck in the 50's.
  4. …project for the past few years. We have our own VM written and it isn't based on the JVM. Bytecode: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/blob/master/doc/bytec... Code: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/tree/master/src/runti...
    comment by scottmac · 2012-08-13 · in Facebook Porting PHP To JVM
  5. You can compile PHP to C++ using HipHop ( https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php ) In my opinion each language is a tool and all have their place. Knowing what each can and cannot do is more important than which is faster. It also comes…
    comment by f1gm3nt · 2012-06-06 · in Ruby is faster than Python, PHP, and Perl
  6. …longer use PHP. A specious comment - hiphop transforms PHP to optimised C++ and then compiles it. https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php
    comment by sgerrand · 2012-04-11 · in PHP Sucks But I Like It
  7. https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Running-HipHop It's how HPHP works.
    comment by nbpoole · 2012-02-03 · in Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository
  8. …a fatal error in Hiphop but not PHP: $z = null, $z[0] = "foo"; You can consult these Hiphop docs: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/raw/master/doc/incons... and https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/raw/master/doc/incons... for a…
    comment by willemst · 2011-12-22 · in HipHop for PHP in Production at Hyves
  9. Check out HipHop which transforms PHP into C++ then compiles that using G++ https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php#readme This is what Facebook uses. That aside, PHP is plenty fast as long as you avoid Zend and design your apps correctly…
    comment by seanp2k2 · 2011-12-21 · in What to Look For in PHP 5.4
  10. …run PHP anymore; they transform their PHP into C++ and run that because PHP is too slow. https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php
    comment by getsat · 2011-10-10 · in A reboot of PHP: keep the philosophy, improve the syntax with the jvm
  11. …http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Parser Some part of other projects: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php https://github.com/facebook/pfff/tree/master/lang_php/parsin... https://github.com/manuelpichler/pdepend http://sourcef
    comment by fooyc · 2011-08-10 · in Underscore.php
  12. Have you tried HipHop? https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php
    comment by SpikeGronim · 2011-07-05 · in V8: a tale of two compilers
  13. …operational cost, but I suspect it would be worth the additional developer and speed gains. [1]: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/
    comment by mkjones · 2011-05-17 · in PHP "require" Performance
  14. …internally, not the serialize() function. I might be wrong, but that's how I read it. edit: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Unimplemented-Fu... That's a list of unimplemented functions - unserialize_callback_func is…
    comment by mgkimsal · 2011-03-31 · in Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware
  15. …their stack completely from scratch to keep up. See HipHop, their homegrown PHP-to-C compiler https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/ and Cassandra, their own custom database system http://cassandra.apache.org/ If they stuck with…
    comment by gcr · 2011-03-25 · in Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?
  16. …either. Once you have tens of thousands of hits a week presumably you can port to HipHop yourself ( http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php ). Needing to scale is a great problem to have.
    comment by ultrasaurus · 2010-10-19 · in Is it possible to make a enterprise website using PHP still?
  17. While I knew this was possible, I'd never considered it. However, with HipHop ( http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki ), this might actually be an acceptable and great way to develop desktop applications.
    comment by apgwoz · 2010-10-10 · in PHP Dark Arts: GUI Programming with GTK
  18. Hmm... maybe in conjunction with HipHop for PHP? http://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php I guess if you were allowed to run compiled binaries you could just as easily use another Lisp, though -- except maybe if you needed to integrate with…
    comment by Turing_Machine · 2010-07-05 · in Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP.