PHP 7 Virtual Machine

Re:PHP 7 Virtual Machine by geon on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:44PM (#14132894)

Facebook built their own PHP-to-C++ compiler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP) and later a JIT compiler/VM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_Virtual_Machine), with a custom, typed version of PHP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language) ).

All just to make PHP a little faster. I think you are making my case.

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Re:PHP 7 Virtual Machine by mschuster91 on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:29PM (#14134577)

HH transpilation was introduced in 2010. Depending on when exactly you look in 2010, FB had between 350-600M active users (https://www.yahoo.com/news/number-active-users-facebook-over...).

Many websites don't ever get to 350M users, so it's safe to say that plain PHP will satisfy your startup for a long time. Also, PHP7 is pretty much on par with HHVM in real-world scenarios: https://kinsta.com/blog/the-definitive-php-7-final-version-h...

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Re:PHP 7 Virtual Machine by SergeAx on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:19PM (#14142002)

Check out "experimental JIT branch" of PHP. It boost performance 1.5-2 times compared to current PHP 7.1, and they didn't start optimization yet. It blows HHVM out of the water, and I can't wait to compare performance with Java and .NET.

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Re:PHP 7 Virtual Machine by geon on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:32AM (#14136506)

And the vast majority of websites never get 5000 concurrent users either. Your planned load obviously dictates the language as much as anything else.

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