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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Method call overhead
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Sara Golemon wrote on 04/06/2015 22:55:
>> On Jun 4, 2015, at 10:00, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
>> : http://3v4l.org/l75kf
>>
>> HHVM's percentages are lower primarily because its for loop measure is much slower in absolute terms.
>>
> At the risk of distracting from the central topic, I'd like to point out that HHVM's times are almost certainly based on non-JITted code.  The JIT doesn't kick in until the 11th request, and 3v4l scripts are, by definition, only run once.
>
> PHP is optimized for blind interp, so it's doing better in that mode.

That makes a lot of sense, and just goes to show how hard it is to get 
useful information out of a simple benchmark.