PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2 Released

Re:PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2 Released by VeejayRampay on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:35AM (#9812061)

"Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6". As a Ruby developer there are two ways I could go about this if I wanted to be a living cliché:

1) Meh, it's still PHP

2) Easy to go twice as fast when the language is so slow to begin with

But really I'm not kidding myself, I'm envious. I don't know if the work on PHP-related tools by Facebook somehow helped, but I'm glad for all PHP developers to see their language maturing and getting more consistency and speed, good on them.

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Re:PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2 Released by ksec on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:50AM (#9812173)

Well PHP is pretty fast, at least compare to Ruby. So making PHP twice as fast without JIT is an huge achivement.

I too wish Ruby get some performance love as well. But Ruby is a compartively small commuities, and without the backing of Giants like Facebook and Zend, it will be a long while before we see RubyJIT arrives.

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Re:PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2 Released by VeejayRampay on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @01:17PM (#9813493)

May I ask you where I can find the numbers for PHP being faster than Ruby? (because Internet, this is not bait or snark, it's a real question).

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