HipHop Virtual Machine by Facebook to speed-up PHP

Most popular Social networking Site Facebook has moved one step ahead at making the PHP programming language runs more quickly. Facebook has developed a PHP virtual machine, called HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) that can executes the PHP web programming language as much as 9 times as quickly as running PHP on large systems. Generally, programs written in interpreted programming language such as PHP do not run or execute as quickly as other languages such as C or C++ , that have been compiled beforehand into machine language byte code. It is a known fact that PHP is the most widely used web programming language understood by most of the web programmers who works in IT field. So to fasten up PHP, Facebook has originally devised a compiler called HipHop, that would translate PHP source code into C++ which will fastens PHP and ultimately give you better and quicker performance. Read Full Article here : http://www.singsys.com/blog/hiphop-virtual-machine-by-facebook-to-speed-up-php/