"HipHop for PHP isn't technically a compiler itself."
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"HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++"
Sounds like a compiler to me. Compilers don't have to target machine code.
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"HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++"
Sounds like a compiler to me. Compilers don't have to target machine code.
This entire thread needs to go fall in a well and die. If they had just called it a compiler, you nerds would be arguing about the same thing and saying it was a source code transformer. They just called it that because it translates PHP to C++, and to most people who don't have Asperger's that's not the same as compiling.
How do I know this? I sit 20 feet from the guys who wrote it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ax7k4/facebooks...
Anyway, the thing that got me was the "technically", otherwise I may have let it slide. You could argue it's not a compiler in the commonly accepted sense of the word, but technically it most certainly is a compiler.
Or so I'm told. I've never read Intel's source code :)