[HipHop] WMF/HHVM status/check-in

[Tyler Romeo]

For the record, I just tried running the unit tests on vagrant using the
pre-built HHVM package and it doesn't work for a number of reasons. I'm
going to retry with a new build since I'm sure things have changed since
the last packaging.

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo at gmail.com


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On 17/07/13 07:18, Sean Cannella wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > I'm a relatively new engineer on the HipHop VM team and just joined
> > our Open Source effort so I haven't met any of you yet. Hi!
> >
> > Since we haven't had any traffic on this list in the past month or
> > so, I just wanted to check in; is WikiMedia waiting on something
> > from Facebook / plugging away / other?
> > We want to make sure silence doesn't mean that both sides of this
> > effort think they are blocked on the other.
> > Let us know if you need any support from us to proceed or, if not,
> > generally how things are going with the port.
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> We (WMF Platform Engineering) are a pretty small team, with a lot of
> other responsibilities. Nobody is assigned to work primarily on HipHop
> at the moment, but we're planning a concerted project aimed at
> production deployment starting in September or October.
>
> In the meantime, I hope there will be some work from WMF volunteers,
> WMF staff with spare time, and FB staff. The kinds of things I'd like
> to see are:
>
> * Updates to hphp/doc/*, for example, documentation of what hhvm is
> and what its command-line parameters are.
> * Successful execution of the MediaWiki unit test suite, if that's not
> done already.
> * Comparative benchmarks, such as parse times of large articles, and
> complete page view times for parser cache hits.
>
> I'd also be interested in having a discussion about strategies for
> bytecode repo management. Should repos be pre-built before deployment,
> or should the application servers just be allowed to populate the
> repos while serving normal traffic? And what is the central/local
> split meant to be for? Presumably SQLite's locking strategy wouldn't
> work across a shared filesystem like NFS -- maybe you have a different
> definition of "central"?
>
> Should Repo.Authoritative be used?
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
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