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> although the HPHP thing certainly is an interesting piece of information Except that the employees description of the differences between "scripted" and comp
by cag_ii 17y ago
> although the HPHP thing certainly is an interesting piece of information
Except that the employees description of the differences between "scripted" and compiled languages leads me to think that this person doesn't really know much about programming languages.
- brown9-2 17y agoSounds like he/she was really just trying to dumb it down for the interviewer, someone who didn't understand what "eyeball-tracking" was or thought that Facebook's servers were hosted in their offices.
- alttab 17y agoI was thinking the same thing. I get the feeling the PHP is probably compiled into some C or C++ format. The speed increase would work wonders for the production server, and if you didn't change HPHP too much from regular PHP, you could still run interpreted for development. For scaling, I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing hybrid models like this in the future.