Ilia Alshanetsky: My Thoughts on HipHop
03/02/2010, 13:06H · Topics: PHP · Print
That said I think HipHop is a very helpful development for PHP community in general. For one it demonstrates that PHP can be converted/compiled into native code, which in the end is the holy-grail of performance for any scripting language. It is also Open Source, meaning people can learn from it, use some of its ideas or evolve the solution even further. Who is to say that HipHop may not one day evolve into a JIT compiler that can be installed in a form of an extension and deployed easily on ANY PHP installation. The released code also contains some other useful snippets such as some Facebook specific extensions and concepts that can be applied to the standard PHP installation, making the stock PHP (or some of its extensions) better.