Possible @property compromise

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/31/13 11:36 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-01-31 15:56, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> From what I remember Andrei saying, they write their code in C++ and
>> compile it to php, or something like that.
>
> I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. PHP code compiles to C++.
>
> "HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly
> optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it."
>
> http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2010/02/02/hiphop-for-php--move-fast/

We use JITting right now: 
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150415177928920

I'm that team!


Andrei