You are all invited to our next Tech Talk:
HHVM in production: what that means for Wikimedia developers
Tuesday, July 29 at 19:00 UTC
Video stream:
https://plus.google.com/events/cp5mjf6jrihevtdje8lmu5hvm1k
Questions: wikimedia-dev IRC
Wikimedia engineers are quickly approaching the point where we are ready to
replace our current PHP interpreter with the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM),
which is a complete re-implementation of PHP that will offer much faster
execution speeds than our current implementation. We're pleased to have
Paul Tarjan and Brett Simmers from the Facebook HHVM team to talk about
HHVM generally. We've had talks in the past to discuss why we should move
to HHVM; this talk will focus on "how?", such as the things that developers
should know about compatibility (e.g. "can I keep using eval in my regular
expressions?") or things you can do to make your code more efficient in the
brave new HHVM world.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil