Hi Guys,

Thought id share with those that may not of seen this by now.

I personally will be moving some of my core systems to this for the 50% or so increase in performance.

http://developers.facebook.com/news....og=1&story=358

Basically ( from by understanding ) it does this:

Takes your PhP , Changes to C++ and compiles the script ( meaning it runs faster as its not interpreted )

Also, HipHop comes with a new Webserver , So not only have Facebook rewritten the PHP runtime, They have written a webserver that can serve faster.

Apparently 90% of their servers use it now and have decreased load by around 50%

So this may be a VERY good option to others out there who have clusters of servers that run hot because of PHP use.

You may be able to even take the load down enough to remove one or 2 servers

I also like this IDEA of compiled PhP so theres no need to try and obfuscate code when selling scripts. You can have compiled core components that cant be reverse engineered easily .




Note to admins , Maybe at some point could we have a HipHop PhP section inside the PHP programming section?


Hopefully we can build a nice sized hiphop community here

Thanks
G

Their are enough hip hop communities already.

Hey



I think you’re absolutely right about the virtues of a quick and agile prototype. And for any startup, even on as successful as Facebook, the pressures to get to the very next stage are so substantial, that long term planning really never happens. And it shouldn’t either – my guess is Facebook would have never been successful if it were developed in Java, as Hans suggests, because it would have taken several times as much money and time.
I know you’re a PHP guy, but I want to point out that Rails really does offer a tremendous advantage here. While it is much more resource intensive than PHP, it can be compiled into Java relatively easily for instant, long term scalability.

@lynxus

Personally I'd listen to Rasmus Lerdorf's opinion before you go implementing hip hop expecting such improvements to server performance:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives...p-facebook.php

HipHop transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and
then compiles it with g++ to build binary files. You keep coding in
simpler PHP, then HipHop executes your source code in a semantically
equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features – such as
eval() – in exchange for improved performance.