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The early version of hiphop (Facebooks php compiler) would compile PHP into C++. It was really interesting how they went from C++ to now a full featured JIT.
by TheHydroImpulse 10y ago
The early version of hiphop (Facebooks php compiler) would compile PHP into C++. It was really interesting how they went from C++ to now a full featured JIT.
- cakoose 10y agoRight. But just to be clear, C++ was an implementation detail. You could treat the entire toolchain as a black box that read in PHP code and produced a single executable binary.