HipHop Virtual Machine(HHVM) for PHP

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HipHop Virtual Machine(HHVM) for PHP

HipHop Virtual Machine(HHVM) for PHP

HHVM is the execution engine for PHP developed by facebook and opensourced in early 2010. It is termed as HipHop for PHP. It increases web page generation by factors of up to 9 over Zend PHP. This engine compile PHP source into a high level bytecode(intermediate language). Bytecode is then translated into x64 machine code dynamically at the run time using Just-in-time(JIT) compiler.