Installing HHVM on Amazon Linux (AWS)

HHVM

Alternative to PHP, said to increase speed by up to 40%.  Works similar to java in that it pre-compiles PHP automatically to speed up execution time.  Used by facebook.

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://www.hop5.in/yum/el6/hop5.repo
echo 'priority=9' >> hop5.repo
echo 'includepkgs=glog,tbb' >> hop5.repo
wget http://yum.sexydev.com/sexydev-amazon.repo
yum install hhvm