Re: Is it possible introduce HHVM into PHP kernel tree?
| From: | Kevin Ingwersen | Date: | Fri, 03 Jan 2014 18:55:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is it possible introduce HHVM into PHP kernel tree? | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
| Request: | Send a blank email to internals+get-70987@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
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.