On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Facebook now write their PHP code to target HipHop exclusively, so by trying to write code that works on both platforms, we'll be in new territory, to some degree. Maybe that's scary, but I think it can work.
What happens when the feature lists start diverging, because Zend adds what it thinks would be useful and Facebook ignores that and adds what it thinks would be useful? Then we can't use any new features from either. Or are we sure Facebook is committed to maintaining long-term compatibility with Zend PHP?
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
I also don't know if they've actually merged the 32bit work into their mainline yet--I know a volunteer was working on it. If they're lacking 32bit support in the main release still, that might be a reason to hold off for now.
Why? People on 32-bit machines can just run Zend PHP.