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Facebook's re-written PHP to transform the dynamic language for fast performance on web-scale server farms without adding additional hardware. The site's engineers have announced HipHop, which turns the popular and dynamic PHP code into highly optimized but static C++ and then compiles it using the GNU C++ compiler, g++. The change has been released to the community under the PHP license, and you can read more here.
It's a makin' me think of the .Net world of compiled languages...
But I can see a definite advantages to languages that functions identically (except, perhaps, for eval statements) in a dynamic and static world.
Dynamic for great development, static for great speed.
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But I can see a definite advantages to languages that functions identically (except, perhaps, for eval statements) in a dynamic and static world.
Dynamic for great development, static for great speed.