On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Yes, that's true, and that's part of the
reason I'm flagging this
change on the mailing list. Domas says that the HipHop team is working
on PHP 5.3 support, so maybe the issue won't come up. But yes, in
principle, I am saying that we should support HipHop even when it
means not using new features from PHP.
PHP 5.3 might be cool, but so is cutting our power usage by half (pun
intended).
Okay, then I'm all in favor.
Plus, free C++ MediaWiki parser ;-)
Seriously, there should be a way to turn the entire package into a
(huge) library; maybe transpile it and then replace the C++ code for
index.php with a manually written library interface?
Offline readers, scientific analysis tools, etc. could profit
massively from an always-current, fast C++ library...
Magnus