Re: PHP Specification

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