Mike Magruder
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A client couldn't break execution during eval. There used to be a lot of barriers to making that right, but I fixed most of them with a previous diff on unifying client-side event loops. Now the only barrier was that a server-side thread processing an interrupt was blocking the signal polling thread by holding a mutex while processing the interrupt. Changed to set a flag to disable polling when starting to process the interrupt (and unsetting it when done), while still synchronizing with the signal polling thread to ensure only one thread is sending the client messages at a time. Added logic to re-enable polling while executing PHP for eval, print, etc. Plumbed the proxy thru to the point where we check the clause on conditional breakpoints, too, since that's the third (and final) place we do this.
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.