Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:70988 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 48283 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2014 18:58:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jan 2014 18:58:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=morrison.levi@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=morrison.levi@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.219.52 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: morrison.levi@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.219.52 mail-oa0-f52.google.com Received: from [209.85.219.52] ([209.85.219.52:42509] helo=mail-oa0-f52.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CA/34-12805-E3807C25 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:58:06 -0500 Received: by mail-oa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id h16so16397524oag.39 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:58:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=AgsDPYHcuNVz2f+07BFtnnKdpiejtPtG7dqx3vjk3sk=; b=DwvUQbnVYbBtzxp8TwVWsHeLahgwIRKIDdIgO3BymOdARxTViL8/AQaDGm93AfpRKJ v9PEKVq/uLrxnQeNyAxXFfhg5ECwE1CGAeLNReM5mVrQkoBz9pEzMj8uwAj0VtBxGv0l uQ9A1ftsQFkGcAQdn2VrNgBE5itk/pDHV1Br2UfoQJGy58JtLSvTHn9+gL+GRjMUNm1i UvopTZ/VPVspqecTvmrhxKtA+0f1+02e2MqYyLBLlyIxkdPOyZ303/Nq3GadBfeMUYel d4T3sS1JoPAdAeb6dYcZH+G5AH1c+eiFFhr6xARCArI8WPFFOzttWEuOF5yPoXoGmcrd 0ogQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.65.36 with SMTP id u4mr59821662obs.31.1388775483290; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:58:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.12.135 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:58:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <52C6E2F2.2020408@ajf.me> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:58:03 -0700 Message-ID: To: Sara Golemon Cc: Andrea Faulds , Pierre Joye , zhifeng hu , PHP internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b604cbc5abc7804ef157d41 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is it possible introduce HHVM into PHP kernel tree? From: morrison.levi@gmail.com (Levi Morrison) --047d7b604cbc5abc7804ef157d41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > It's my understanding that HHVM is incomplete, as well. Does HHVM > implement > > the full basic functionality of PHP? Are there still things which don't > work > > for performance reasons? > > > Syntax: Yes, HHVM is an equivalent engine.* > Runtime Library: This is the big gap. PHP has a bunch of bundled > extensions and a massive library of PECL extensions. Since the > extension API is very different, each extension has to be > reimplemented, and not all of them have been. > Unless some commits have been merged that I am not aware of, you still can't use callable type-hints (https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/1363). While I can't imagine it is difficult for HHVM to finish support for the callable type-hint, it does show an example of a major compatibility issue as your code will not run at all. My opinion: it's not stable enough... yet. --047d7b604cbc5abc7804ef157d41--