Tim Starling wrote: > I think we should migrate MediaWiki to target HipHop [1] as its > primary high-performance platform. I think we should continue to > support Zend, for the benefit of small installations. But we should > additionally support HipHop, use it on Wikimedia, and optimise our > algorithms for it. > > In cases where an algorithm optimised for HipHop would be excessively > slow when running under Zend, we can split the implementations by > subclassing. > > I was skeptical about HipHop at first, since the road is littered with > the bodies of dead PHP compilers. But it looks like Facebook is pretty > well committed to this one, and they have the resources to maintain > it. I waited and watched for a while, but I think the time has come to > make a decision on this. > > Facebook now write their PHP code to target HipHop exclusively, so by > trying to write code that works on both platforms, we'll be in new > territory, to some degree. Maybe that's scary, but I think it can work. > > Who's with me? > > -- Tim Starling > > [1] https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/
I was expecting this the week hip-hop hit. What would be required "to target hip-hop"? How does that differ from working from Zend? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
