Using web services from MFC

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Facebook uses C++ to host their website,

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I may be wrong on this, but I thought I had heard that Facebook is written in PHP and then this is 'compiled' into c++ that is actually run for performance reasons

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Originally Posted by 2kaud

I may be wrong on this, but I thought I had heard that Facebook is written in PHP and then this is 'compiled' into c++ that is actually run for performance reasons

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Does that detail matter for the purpose of this discussion?

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Originally Posted by Arjay

Does that detail matter for the purpose of this discussion?

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Nope! :)

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Originally Posted by 2kaud

I may be wrong on this, but I thought I had heard that Facebook is written in PHP and then this is 'compiled' into c++ that is actually run for performance reasons

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Cool! Is this the joke of the month? I may be wrong also, of course. :)

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Originally Posted by ovidiucucu

Cool! Is this the joke of the month? I may be wrong also, of course. :)

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No, It wasn't a joke - and I was right, although they don't any more. Facebook wrote a php to c++ compiler called HipHop. Facebook switched all its production servers to using HipHop in early 2010. Since 2013 they now use a JIT compilation engine for php - also developed by Facebook.

See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?no...50121348198920
https://research.fb.com/wp-content/u...er-for-php.pdf
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...p-php-download

... and others

Sarah Alfred is a company. Googling the address I found this,