On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@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