Event #4085: HipHop for PHP

Date: 2010-4-26 Country: USA Category: User Group Event URL: http://www.meetup.com/bostonphp/calendar/13219000/ Ever wonder how the world's largest and most active social media site can scale to meet the demand of over 200 Million users? Did it ever occur to you that Facebook is written in PHP? The secrets were revealed recently from Facebook developers as HipHop for PHP. HipHop for PHP is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features such as eval() in exchange for improved performance. HipHop includes a code transformer, a reimplementation of PHP's runtime system, and a rewrite of many common PHP Extensions to take advantage of these performance optimizations. Join us on April 26th as Scott MacVicar from Facebook takes us through HipHop and how you might potentially use it for your high demand web applications. -- https://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=4085&action=approve https://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=4085&action=reject https://master.php.net/manage/event.php?id=4085