HipHop for PHP Source Code Available Again

Posted by SibProgrammer on February 23, 2010|Comments

As a watcher of hiphop-php project on github I saw that source codes were published again two days ago.

Last night I tried to experiment and compile it on Ubuntu 9.04 but without luck. I decided to stop wasting my time and try again on the next day. Today the great instructions on how to install HipHop for PHP on Ubuntu 9.10 were published. Using them and 32-bit patches I finally got hphp binary. Completed build script for building on Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit is here

All was made inside OpenVZ container on not very powerful hardware node. Simple echo "Hello, World"; script compilation took about 4 minutes on it. The size of compiled binary is about 25 Mb and it has so much dependencies:

root@114:~# ldd ./hiphop/hiphop-php/src/hphp/hphp | wc -l
49

IMHO, it looks like HipHop is suitable firstly to improve performance of very high loaded webservices and then there is no chances to improve it by the other tools (like eAccellerator, memcached for example).