Mike Magruder
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Most CPP extension classes don’t think about serialization, and some require more initialization than the default contractor provides. The result is that on deserialization we end up with a partially initialized object, and undefined behavior after that. Modified the serializer to emit __PHP_Unserializable_Class instead, and just the class name for the debugger case. Modified the deserializer to create a __PHP_Unserializable_Class, too, if we are given a string with a CPP extension instance in it, so we're safe on both sides. I do not raise a warning; the results are pretty clear, I think, and it's also unlikely that most such warnings could (or should) be corrected. Finally, I also removed the odd behavior of emitting "dummy" classes for Closure and Continuation. I found no use of these in any source tree. Closure had no implementation at all, and Continuation had an implementation that simply raised a fatal on any method call. Thus we can safely assume that even if someone was serializing one of these types, they were receiving an object that was useless to them, or would fatal. So I believe this transformation is safe.
HipHop VM for PHP 
HipHop VM (HHVM) is a new open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. HipHop VM (and before it HPHPc) has realized > 5x increase in throughput for Facebook compared with Zend PHP 5.2.
HipHop is most commonly run as a standalone server, replacing both Apache and modphp.
Installing
You can install a prebuilt package or compile from source.
Running
You can run standalone programs just by passing them to hhvm: hhvm my_script.php.
HipHop bundles in a webserver. So if you want to run on port 80 in the current directory:
sudo hhvm -m server
For anything more complicated, you'll want to make a config.hdf and run sudo hhvm -m server -c config.hdf.
Contributing
We'd love to have your help in making HipHop better. If you run into problems, please open an issue, or better yet, fork us and send a pull request. Join us on #hhvm on freenode.
If you want to help but don't know where to start, try fixing some of the Zend tests that don't pass. You can run them with hphp/test/run. When they work, move them to zend/good and send a pull request.
Before changes can be accepted a Contributors Licensing Agreement (pdf - print, sign, scan, link) must be signed.
Licence
HipHop VM is licensed under the PHP and Zend licenses except as otherwise noted.