Kyle Delong
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XML comment syntax for XHP is one of the top wishlist items within the UIE group (+ some other people).
Currently, the only way to have comments inside XHP blocks is to use expressions and block comments, e.g.
<div>{/* comment */}</div>
After this change, you can use the more familiar syntax. This syntax is limited to XHP child contexts:
// Only single-line, doc, block comments work outside XHP
$xhp =
<div>
<!--XML comments only work within XHP children contexts-->
</div>;
Based on http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-comments - except we ignore the rule about double hyphens ('--') within a comment because we don't care about SGML.
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.
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Licence
HipHop VM is licensed under the PHP and Zend licenses except as otherwise noted.