Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by code-dog » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 7:58 PM UTC

Facebook Porting PHP To JVM
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Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

#2

Post by stephen_mcd » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

It's the summer of 2018. Facebook shares drop to 17 cents as their PHP to ASM compiler project nears completion.

Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by code-dog » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 9:30 PM UTC

stephen_mcd wrote: post #2

It's the summer of 2018. Facebook shares drop to 17 cents as their PHP to ASM compiler project nears completion.

No reason it should take that long. The article suggest 6 person years - which could mean 6 people for 1 year.

Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by abolibibelot » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 10:22 PM UTC

Phalanger ( http://phalanger.codeplex.com/ ) is an implementation of PHP running on the CLR with a fairly good compatibility story and sometimes much better performance.

Phalanger worked well even without using the DLR (dynamic language runtime) so a JVM implementation shouldn't be a massive undertaking (except for the lexer and parser parts...)

Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by ams6110 » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 10:38 PM UTC

code-dog wrote: post #3

stephen_mcd wrote: post #2

It's the summer of 2018. Facebook shares drop to 17 cents as their PHP to ASM compiler project nears completion.

No reason it should take that long. The article suggest 6 person years - which could mean 6 people for 1 year.

Just like nine women can have a baby in one month?

Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by nickmain » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 10:45 PM UTC

There are already at least 2 implementations of PHP on the JVM:

http://quercus.caucho.com/ http://www.projectzero.org/php/

Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by dreamdu5t » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

This is all great but... why?

Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by jeremiep » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 11:02 PM UTC

dreamdu5t wrote: post #7

This is all great but... why?

My reaction exactly. I have great respect for the JVM, but PHP could simply be replaced by JavaScript for example.

It seems easier to me to port PHP to Rhino or node.js than to bring PHP to the JVM. Especially considering CoffeeScript, PHP just can't keep up.

Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by lukev » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 11:04 PM UTC

I guess someone must really love PHP, though I'm slightly confused as to why.

If you're going to make such a massive undertaking anyway (it's not just the new runtime, all existing code will have to be re-tested and re-debugged), why not sink the man-hours into putting it into a new language better suited to the task from the start?

Re: Facebook Porting PHP To JVM

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Post by kyriakos » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 11:06 PM UTC

lukev wrote: post #9

I guess someone must really love PHP, though I'm slightly confused as to why. If you're going to make such a massive undertaking anyway (it's not just the new runtime, all existing code will have to be re-tested and re-debugged), why not sink the man-hours into putting it into a new language better suited to the task from the start?

i understand your thinking but in your opinion what language is suited for this particular task? personally i doubt there's a platform that's suitable for this scale, one has to create his own, and thats what facebook's doing.