Home › Facebook invents a PHP virtual machine
 

Keywords :   


Facebook invents a PHP virtual machine

2013-07-26 23:30:00| InfoWorld: Top News

Social networking giant Facebook has taken another step at making the PHP Web programming language run more quickly. The company has developed a PHP Virtual Machine that it says can execute the language as much as nine times as quickly as running PHP natively on large systems. "Our goal is to make PHP run really, really quickly," said Joel Pobar, a Facebook engineering manager. Facebook has been using the virtual machine, called the HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine), across all of its servers since earlier this year.

Tags: php machine virtual facebook

Category:Information Technology

Latest from this category

All news
»
17.05More people seek help for debts as fee scrapped
17.05Hunt hints at another National Insurance tax cut
17.05Alan Bates rejects second Post Office compensation offer
17.05Severn Trent boss defends multi-million pay packet
17.05Coptis Marks 25th Anniversary
17.05Farm Progress America, May 17, 2024
17.05Farm Progress America, May 17, 2024
17.05China pours billions into crisis-hit property market
More »