Faster PHP Applications with Facebook HipHop

We already know well that PHP is,

• Simple
• Easier to learn
• Easier to debug
• Opensource and free
• Easy to implement
• and php web hosting is very cheap and simpler.

But there are some points that bothers us in php application development. We usually worry about,

• CPU overhead by php application
• Faster php execution
• Scaling larger php apps in faster manner

Facebook have been silently worked on some php projects for the past couple of years. Recently, they came out with a new open source trend known to be HipHop.

HipHop is nothing but a application or a server that transforms your php native code into highly optimized c++ code and then compiled by g++. Facebook guarantees that HipHop can reduce server overhead by 50%. You may think why are rounding the corners. Simply c++ is more machine understandable than php codes. And moreover php and c++ syntax mates in many keys. Hence they used to do so.

We hope that very soon these HipHop may be available in all web hosting provider server. Before that you can even try with some dedicated servers or vps hosting by installing hiphop by yourself.