Scott MacVicar (09.Oct.2010 at 16:15)
Talk at PHP North West 2010 (PHPNW10) (English - UK)
HipHop is a new PHP runtime written and open sourced by Facebook that takes advantage of the fact that there are many similarities between PHP and C++. HipHop converts PHP into semantically equivalent C++ removing the interpreted stages that can make PHP slow.
This session will cover building HipHop, the minor conversions to applications to run under HipHop and how to develop your own HipHop extension.
Quicklink: https://joind.in/2062
Track(s): Track 2
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09.Oct.2010 at 18:45 by Mark Baker
A very brief overview of HipHop, and while it looks to be a very powerful tool for improving performance if you have an exceptionally heavy website, it's probably not worthwhile for most sites. However, Scott's presentation was both informative and entertaining, and even though the content was brief it was interesting
10.Oct.2010 at 01:10 by Devis Lucato
Entertaining talk by Scott and the FB crew in the room, though HipHop seems to be a niche product for very big installations. Not PHP 5.3 yet and some extensions not included as not needed by FB of course. The talk was very informative on how hiPHoP converts PHP code into C++ but doesn't seem to apply to real life examples.
10.Oct.2010 at 15:49 by Thijs Feryn
Guerilla style talk, lots of heckling and very entertaining.
Scott knows his stuff and was a little bit better prepaired than the previous time I saw this talk.
10.Oct.2010 at 20:50 by Ryan Mauger
You can't help but be amused at some point in Scott's talks, and this was no exception! Not only did he outline some of the cool stuff Hiphop does, he also shared some small insights what goes on at Facebook.
Maybe the banter with Sara was too much, but it was very funny, so completely forgiven!
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09.Oct.2010 at 17:07 by Rowan Merewood
Interesting overview of the Facebook infrastructure and deployment. Scott manages to turn the heckling into interesting discussion, which means that some unexpected stuff turns up. I would have liked to see a bit more of the hands-on stuff though.