Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Charles Vasquez <cvasque...@gmail.com> wrote: > > what is hip hop? When you speak about compiling do you mean creating a > windows dll or something? I am new to this type of speak, not new to php, > but the php community. I practice php for personal purposes.
Hi Charles, Hip Hop is a technology developed by Facebook. It basically takes PHP source code and rewrites it as highly optimized C++ code (or maybe just C, I can't remember). It makes the code run faster and scale better for them. But by compiling, I mean creating a Windows executable. A program you can run directly without having to have the language interpreter on your machine. So I could write PHP code, compile it to a Windows executable and distribute that .exe file which people could run directly on their machines without having to have PHP installed. While a DLL is something pretty similar and is compiled, it's not quite the same thing. DLL's are more libraries of functions that programs can use while a program executable is the program itself. That's probably clear as mud, I'm sure. I suck at explaining things. Anthony _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation
