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Re:HipHop for PHP in Production at Hyves by j_s on Thursday December 22, 2011 @12:28PM (#3382386)
If I were making the decision on where to move my PHP code now, would Phalanger be a better alternative than HipHop?

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http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Dec-21.html

"This year the Phalanger guys released Phalanger 3.0 which now runs on Mono (previously they required the C++/CLI compiler to run). Phalanger's performance is impressive as it is just as fast as the newly announced Facebook HipHop VM for PHP. The major difference being that Phalanger is a complete PHP implementation and the HipHopVM is still not a complete implementation." - Miguel de Icaza

Phalanger http://phalanger.codeplex.com/ http://www.php-compiler.net/

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Re:HipHop for PHP in Production at Hyves by omouse on Thursday December 22, 2011 @12:37PM (#3382414)
Wtf does it mean to be a complete PHP implementation? As far as I know, there's no standard specification for the whole language, there's not even an EBNF grammar. There's no ISO or ANSI effort to standardize it either.
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Re:HipHop for PHP in Production at Hyves by j_s on Thursday December 22, 2011 @01:12PM (#3382584)
Perhaps feature compatibility with a particular version of the normal PHP interpreter? This would be the opposite of HipHop's lack of support for certain PHP features.

The referenced post states "It is so complete that it can run both MediaWiki and WordPress out of the box."

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Re:HipHop for PHP in Production at Hyves by maratd on Thursday December 22, 2011 @01:07PM (#3382561)
You would use the default interpreter (http://www.php.net) as the golden standard, since no specification for the language exists.
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