Not planned Making sure it's running well under HipHop

[mlx]

I just read Scott's update about HipHop for PHP.

I have to admit that I didn't really start reading into it yet. So I'm not sure what's involved to make sure a script is running nicely under HipHop.

But the project sounds amazing. And it would be great if you could make sure XenForo is running well under it.

More information:
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358
http://wiki.github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/

 

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http://wiki.github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/

Whoa, how did they manage that :O?

 

[Erik]

Whoa, how did they manage that :O?

They're good at what they do.

 

[AlexT]

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[Paul B]

I've merged your thread win an existing suggestion.

 

[Jason]

I know I have mentioned HipHop some time in the past when XF was still in early beta. Yesterday I came across this interesting article @ The Register speaking about the vast performance improvement when using converted PHP apps (like Drupal, Wordpress or Mediawiki) with HipHop.

Which begs the question if there are any plans in adding compatibility to XF for compiling it with HipHop?

I'd take what The Register posts with a grain of salt. After reading that article I'm a bit confused (and the author seems even more confused). For example, the author says they dropped rarely used functionality ftom PHP, such as serialization, yet Drupal strongly depends on it. You couldn't effectively run Drupal without it. He may be referring to APC, but even then the only thing APC serializes is objects. Arrays and scalar types are directly memcpy'd in and out of the user cache.

A better read would be the actual entry that article is based on: http://www.facebook.com/notes/faceb...tions-for-efficient-servers/10150121348198920