title: Can PHP be considered a compiled language when running on the HHVM?
body: <p>According to the <a href="http://hhvm.com/" rel="nofollow">HHVM website</a>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Rather than directly interpret or compile PHP code directly to C++, HHVM compiles Hack and PHP into an intermediate bytecode. This bytecode is then translated into x64 machine code dynamically at runtime by a just-in-time (JIT) compiler.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Does this mean that PHP code running on the HHVM, like Java running on the JVM, can be considered compiled?
  Or is it just like .pyc Python files where the original code is translated to interpreter-ready intermediate code?</p>