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Hip Hop

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  • 03-02-2010 8:58am
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    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭


    So, facebook have went and written a 'source code transformer' that converts php to c++ and compiles it. Apparently they experience 50% less CPU useage (It has been used on facebook,com for the last 6 months.

    http://developers.facebook.com/news.php
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/02/facebook_hiphop_unveiled/

    What do you think?
    Probably Useless for the small developers, like most of us here, but we could see more really big sites popping up running in PHP.


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