Timeline for How big sites scale up and optimize to massive traffic?
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| Dec 13, 2010 at 9:45 | comment | added | Andy |
Really? To quote the HipHop site: HipHop transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then compiles it with g++ to build binary files. I understand it can only handle a subset of PHP as the more dynamic bits (think eval) don't easily translate...
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| Dec 12, 2010 at 19:55 | comment | added | Trufa | Just in case it HipHop doesn't turn PHP into C++, it connects the two languages in a way that Facebook logic behind the site is done in C++ (which is much faster and CPU usage friendly) but the "inputs to that logic" is done by PHP. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 9:39 | history | answered | Andy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |