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