HipHop PHP (was Hyper PHP by Facebook)

Question

Following this rather comical interview with a Facebook \"employee\"...

Does anybody have any details on the Hyper PHP (now renamed to HipH

Answer 1

Looks like someone tried to explain caching/opcodes to someone without any programming knowledge.

"... You see? Doing this is like, putting an H in front of PHP, H as in Hyper. So we get, Hyper-PHP, or HPHP. And it's super fast ..."