Re: Is it possible introduce HHVM into PHP kernel tree?

From: Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:55:17 +0000
Subject: Re: Is it possible introduce HHVM into PHP kernel tree?
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If I may mention, HHVM doesn’t even work properly on all platforms so far; but PHP does. That’s one big bummer to consider. Am Fr. Jan. 03 2014 19:50:01 schrieb Sara Golemon: >> 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. > > -Sara > > * Actually HHVM hasn't finished finally yet, but that's very new in > PHP. Also, there are a couple small areas where HHVM intentionally > differs from PHP.

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