Alex Gaynor • 2/2/2010

Thoughts on HipHop PHP

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The article critically examines Facebook's HipHop PHP, a compiler that transforms PHP into C++. It questions the need for CPU optimization in typically I/O-bound web apps, analyzes the trade-offs of dropping dynamic features like eval(), and compares the approach to similar projects in the Python ecosystem like Shedskin and Cython.

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