Re: PHP Specification

Wouldn't it make sense to have something like PHP-FIG, but focused on creating a language specification on top of the current reference implementation? On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de>wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Klaus Silveira (011) 8564-2492 www.klaussilveira.com