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Re:Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM by runekaagaard on Friday November 30, 2012 @02:26AM (#4852258)
Slightly OT, sorry. phc was such a nice project, and vastly unappreciated. Your cleanup of PHP's grammar was a piece of art which I spend a long time perusing through and trying to understand! phc could have largely benefited the PHP community as a whole and it's such a shame it couldn't gain (enough) traction!

Never got a chance to say thx, so THX!

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Re:Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM by pbiggar on Friday November 30, 2012 @02:42AM (#4852294)
I'm glad you liked it. FYI, I cant claim credit for the parser. The front end (indeed it was a work of beauty) was done by phc's founders (Edsko de Vries and John Gilbert) before I got there.
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Re:Speeding up PHP with the HipHop VM by edsko on Saturday December 01, 2012 @11:33AM (#4858106)
Wow, thanks! John and I spent a long time thinking about it :)
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