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>It started off as a research project [...] for Facebook Huh? Isn't that what HipHop is? Can someone elaborate on the matter? Is this a fork? Why aren't they j
by pearjuice 12y ago
>It started off as a research project [...] for Facebook
Huh? Isn't that what HipHop is? Can someone elaborate on the matter? Is this a fork? Why aren't they just migrating their work back to HipHop, I mean all this leads to is fragmentation.
- sanxiyn 12y agoFacebook had multiple research projects to develop better implementations of PHP programming language. HippyVM is not a fork of HHVM and indeed two codebases are completely unrelated. Therefore "just migrating their work back to HipHop" is not possible; there is nowhere to go back to, since it didn't come from there.
- pearjuice 12y agoBut if Hippy is faster why did they pick HipHop?
- Solarsail 12y agoFrom memory (I think one of the dev's comments on HHVM or Hippy a while back) Hippy started after HHVM was already underway. Hippy was mostly a proof of concept, to see if PyPy would be a viable strategy for a PHP runtime. HipHop was more so the logical followup to HipHop... I think being forked from the HipHop interpreter they were using for development.