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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:57:33 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Specification
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 18:52 +0100, Pierre Joye wrote:
> > [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.

Not that they are alone in the commercial field:
https://github.com/symisc/PH7

btw. a relevant question is whether they actually want to be 100%
compatible, for many purposes a close approximation of the language is
enough. ("simple scripting language for embedding somewhere which people
may learn quickly")

johannes