Hi All, I was browsing through how to improve performance of Druapl. Then I came across FB hiphop can be used to build an exe file for Drupal. I am planning to build an exe of Drupal 7.14 + custom modules code base. If we can build exe, it will serve two purpose. 1. It will be faster by 6 times (not verified yet, thats what is mentioned in some site). Looks it can server more requests per second. 2. The source code (custom modules) is safe. When we host either in a shared environment or in a dedicated server, still there is a chance, people may get access to your custom modules. If it is a exe, then it is much safer.
Next comes, feasibility. How difficult it is to build the exe, looks for drupal 7.0 , a diff patch file is available (mostly foreach() is modified everywhere). But that patch file is quite old, probably can not be used with current source code 7.14 or 7.17 etc.. Did anybody try this stuff recently ? If so, please share details...
Next comes stability. I am sure the PHP version of Druapl 7 is quite satble, it is tested and running live. With exe made by Hiphop, what is the stability and performance. You have any info or idea, please share.
What about the idea of Drupal developers release a patch file with every Druapl release so that Hiphop can compile and build exe without much trouble?
Thanks a lot. Kamal Net Cloud Systems, Bangalore, India