How Three Guys Rebuilt the Foundation of Facebook

Cade Metz: In a nod to the company’s original PHP converter, they called the system the HipHop Virtual Machine, or HHVM for short, and it was soon installed beneath the live site, where it continues to run today. HHVM uses what’s called just-in-time compilation, which means Facebook’s PHP code is converted to machine language as … Continue reading How Three Guys Rebuilt the Foundation of Facebook