Are you a fan of PHP? Facebook is. The company has been working behind the scenes to create HipHop, a runtime compiler for PHP to improve the language’s performance on Facebook’s servers. The company is also friending the rest of the PHP community with its work by releasing its project as open source.
Rumors have been flying for a while, and the news was confirmed on Monday by ReadWriteWeb. Facebook gave a talk on Tuesday night about HipHop to introduce the technology at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.
