----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Friesen" <[email protected]>
> I'm fairly certain myself that his intention was "With HipHop support > since the C that HipHop compiles PHP to can be extracted and re-used > we can turn that compiled C into a C library that can be used anywhere by > abstracting the database calls and what not out of the php version of > the parser. And because HipHop has better performance we will no > longer have to worry about parser abstractions slowing down the parser and as > a result increasing the load on large websites like Wikipedia where they > are noticeable. So that won't be in the way of adding those > abstractions anymore." What I get for not paying any attention to Facebook Engineering. *That's* what HipHop does? > Naturally of course if it's a C library you can build at least an > extension/plugin for a number of languages. You would of course have > to install the ext/plug though so it's not a shared-hosting thing. True. But that's still a derivative work. And from experience, I can tell you that you *don't* want to work with the *output* of a code generator/cross-compiler. Cheers, -- jra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
