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Facebook Releases JIT PHP Compiler

Posted by Unknown on from the history-repeats-itself dept.

angry tapir writes, quoting a Techworld article: "In its continuing endeavor to serve its 800 million users as quickly as possible, Facebook is once again revamping the way it handles its PHP-based Web pages. Facebook has posted ... its HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), which the company's engineers call a just-in-time PHP compiler. According to Facebook, this PHP execution engine is 60 percent faster than its current PHP interpreter and uses 90 percent less memory." Facebook has a weblog post with a more technical description.

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  1. First PHP post by PCM2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to launch this discussion by making a snide remark about PHP.

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    1. Re:First PHP post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Aren't Facebook programmers already tools?

    2. Re:First PHP post by MattW · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's too bad PHP doesn't scale.

  2. What's your problem? Very well documented! by syousef · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I quote:

    implode() can, for historical reasons, accept its parameters in either order. For consistency with explode(), however, it may be less confusing to use the documented order of arguments.

    What is your problem with this exactly? The functions do exactly what their name suggests. They will either make your head implode or explode!

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  3. Re:Mixed feelings by CodeReign · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are a disgusting filth and I will loath the existence of people who don't use the right tool for the right job for the rest of my life.

  4. Re:So True. by Rennt · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a form of hacker koan. In your eagerness to be a smartass you failed to reach enlightenment.

  5. Re:Yo Dawgs! by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yo dawg I heard you like interpreting PHP code, so we put an eval() function in PHP so you can interpret PHP while you interpret PHP!

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  6. Re:Is it open sourced? by ksd1337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, he's got a 4-digit UID! Respect your elders!

  7. Re:Yo Dawgs! by iluvcapra · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yo mama's so fat, she thinks strstr(needle, haystack) and strstr(haystack, needle) both sound delicious, she just can't ever remember which one is the one to use.

    Yo mama's so fat, she hides food in $a[1] and $a["1"].

    Yo mama's so fat, she silently coerces strings into sandwich, and when the interpreter complains, she puts an @ sign in front of it.

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  8. Re:Mixed feelings by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You know, people who do fancy stuff with not exactly the right tools, when the right tools were not available, ARE called "hackers".

    FTFY.

    People who use the wrong tool when the right tool is available are called PHP programmers ;-)

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  9. Re:Is it open sourced? by youn · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe it is a license meant for quantic processors... it is required and not required at the same time

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  10. Re:Is it open sourced? by Tom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pffft. Newbie.

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