Re: PHP Specification

From: Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:11:23 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP Specification
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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
<[email protected]>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
>
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