Comments on: HipHop for PHP, The PHP Compiler by Facebook http://www.dancryer.com/2010/02/hiphop-the-facebook-php-compiler Dan Cryer - Leeds Web Developer Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:55:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ben Davies http://www.dancryer.com/2010/02/hiphop-the-facebook-php-compiler#comment-1642 Ben Davies Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:50:56 +0000 http://www.dancryer.com/?p=442#comment-1642 From what I've read, it looks like HipHop compiles a subset of PHP to C++, which can be compiled to an executable. The executable contains a Web Server, so the resulting code is not used with any existing web server framework (so things like web server based authentication etc etc might be an issue). On top of this, the subset of PHP it supports may be an issue for some (they currently only cite eval() as an example, but it might be more). They also not that SOME PHP modules have been converted to run, so any non-converted modules that a script use would rule out the script from compilation. On the basis of this, I think there will be exactly zero hosting companies providing hiphop support or compilation. Try getting a hosting company to run your own compiled cgi or apache module. They (sensibly) wont. I think hiphop is interesting, but has very specific, niche case uses. like, cpu-bound scaling issues specific. Cool tech though :) From what I’ve read, it looks like HipHop compiles a subset of PHP to C++, which can be compiled to an executable. The executable contains a Web Server, so the resulting code is not used with any existing web server framework (so things like web server based authentication etc etc might be an issue). On top of this, the subset of PHP it supports may be an issue for some (they currently only cite eval() as an example, but it might be more). They also not that SOME PHP modules have been converted to run, so any non-converted modules that a script use would rule out the script from compilation.

On the basis of this, I think there will be exactly zero hosting companies providing hiphop support or compilation. Try getting a hosting company to run your own compiled cgi or apache module. They (sensibly) wont.

I think hiphop is interesting, but has very specific, niche case uses. like, cpu-bound scaling issues specific.

Cool tech though :)

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