Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-02-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
> https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/ > but it seems to have been removed and the repo's not public on GitHub yet. > Soon, > I hope :) source release had to be yesterday, I don't know the details what happened, but I heard people telling 'soon = this week'. Domas ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-02-03 Thread Chad
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Platonides wrote: > Domas Mituzas wrote: >>> However, that article is just rumour. I think it's more likely they made >>> some apc-like cache/optimizer than a compiler. >> >> http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=280583813919&id=9445547199&ref=nf >> >>> And the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-02-03 Thread Platonides
Domas Mituzas wrote: >> However, that article is just rumour. I think it's more likely they made >> some apc-like cache/optimizer than a compiler. > > http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=280583813919&id=9445547199&ref=nf > >> And the conclusion that >> it will be open source is questionable.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-02-02 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tei wrote: > I was thinking about that the other day, I understand why MediaWiki > don't follow that route. Mediawiki often runs in enviroments where users have no shell access, no ability to install extensions, etc. There is some C++ stuff for mediawiki, such as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-02-02 Thread Chad
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote: >> However, that article is just rumour. I think it's more likely they made >> some apc-like cache/optimizer than a compiler. > > http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=280583813919&id=9445547199&ref=nf > >> And the conclusion that >> it will

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-02-02 Thread Tei
On 2 February 2010 18:53, Domas Mituzas wrote: >> However, that article is just rumour. I think it's more likely they made >> some apc-like cache/optimizer than a compiler. > > http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=280583813919&id=9445547199&ref=nf > He say is a rewriter,read PHP, outputs

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-02-02 Thread Domas Mituzas
> However, that article is just rumour. I think it's more likely they made > some apc-like cache/optimizer than a compiler. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=280583813919&id=9445547199&ref=nf > And the conclusion that > it will be open source is questionable. In such case, why would they >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-01-31 Thread Platonides
David Gerard wrote: > http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/01/30/Facebook-rewrites-PHP-runtime.aspx > > Facebook is written in PHP. Unlike Wikimedia, they have money to pay > people to speed it up. Looks like they're introducing a PHP compiler. > Open source. Might be of interest to WMF and third

Re: [Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-01-31 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi David, We don't run on rumors! Domas ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Facebook introducing PHP compiler?

2010-01-31 Thread David Gerard
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2010/01/30/Facebook-rewrites-PHP-runtime.aspx Facebook is written in PHP. Unlike Wikimedia, they have money to pay people to speed it up. Looks like they're introducing a PHP compiler. Open source. Might be of interest to WMF and third-party MediaWiki users ... -