On 21.02.2013, at 20:08, Levi Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Personally I would love to see more RFCs focusing on performance and
>> less on syntax changes.
>
> Some recent tests I performed indicate that JavaScript and Dart are
> both significantly faster than PHP when working with just arrays and
> numbers. If anyone is interested I can provide the test code for more
> scrutiny. I'd like to see more performance enhancements but I am not
> against other enhancements as well.
That is expected. Both of them use JIT-compilation, which is not present in PHP.
There was some effort to implement PHP in PyPy/RPython, but it is not active
http://morepypy.blogspot.ru/2012/07/hello-everyone.html