Redesigning the HHVM JIT compiler for better performance - Facebook Engineering
With more than 1 billion people using Facebook every day, we have to ensure that our computing infrastructure runs efficiently and scales as we continue to grow. In early 2013, we replaced our original HipHop Compiler, which statically compiled PHP to C++, with the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM). HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach [...]Read More...
Sep 22, 2016 ... With more than 1 billion people using Facebook every day, we have to ... HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to execute PHP ...