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Re:C++26 Reflections adventures and compile time UML by pjmlp on Monday August 04, 2025 @01:24AM (#44782356)
And then HipHop failed to provide as much gains as they hoped for versus the Hack JIT implementation, thus Facebook keeps writing mostly PHP like code in many of their workloads.
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Re:C++26 Reflections adventures and compile time UML by motorest on Monday August 04, 2025 @01:57AM (#44782502)
> And then HipHop failed to provide as much gains as they hoped (...)

What point do you think you're making?

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Re:C++26 Reflections adventures and compile time UML by pjmlp on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:08AM (#44782547)
That the C++ migration in the end did not achieve everything they were trying to get out of it, and another more productive approach was chosen in the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHVM

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