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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:52:51 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Specification
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa
<ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net> wrote:
> On 24/03/2014 10:15, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa wrote:
>>
>> We see more and more PHP interpreters or compilers out there:
>>
>>   * the historical interpreter [1],
>>   * interpreter from Facebook [2],
>>   * interpreter written for .NET [3],
>>   * interpreter written for JVM [4],
>>   * maybe I forgot some of them.
>
> HippyVM has been pre-released today [5]. Perfect timing for this thread ;-).
>
>
>
>> [1] http://php.net/
>> [2] http://hhvm.com/
>> [3] https://github.com/DEVSENSE/Phalanger
>> [4] https://github.com/dim-s/jphp
>
> [5] http://hippyvm.com/blog#introducing-hippyvm

Interesting :)

While it is surely much faster than stock php, I am not sure their
benchmark against hhvm is correct, especially as they do not have a
web module ready, meaning that benchs are ran only once. hhvm uses a
profiler and JIT only comes into the game later in the php lifetime,
many requests may be necessary to get full optimization.

One bad point is that they are very likely go half open and
proprietary, I do not see a business coming out of that but a little
niche. Maybe that'll be enough for their needs.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org