willemst

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   by willemst 15y ago

   We did not measure this separately. With Hiphop, you compile a bunch of PHP files to a binary executable file. Once you have this file, you cannot load any new PHP files like you can with vanilla PHP. So including the Smarty templates is ki
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   by willemst 15y ago

   We did not really consider it, as we have few experienced Java developers and had no need to make Java and PHP code work together. The Hiphop project started of because one engineer thought it was "really cool" and when he was able to produ
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   by willemst 15y ago

   Ti toumhi! Don't worry, how can I forget the only Frenchie at Hyves?
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   by willemst 15y ago

   Namespaces don't work very well, all functions that create dynamic code (code that is not known at compile time) don't work (eval(), create_function(), preg_replace() with 'e' modifier). Don't define constants where the name of the constant
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   by willemst 15y ago

   I would like to elaborate a bit on this. Currently, Hiphop supports 99% of the PHP 5.3 features. When we started working on Hiphop, less was supported. Stuff like closures, eval(), create_function(), constants with dynamic names (e.g. defin
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   by willemst 15y ago

   I work at Hyves and wrote this article. If you have any questions on our use of Hiphop, please ask here and I will try to answer any questions.