WordPress 4.3 benchmark: HHVM 3.9 vs PHP 7.0
A casual Sunday morning benchmark for August 9th 2015 using latest builds:
1000 Front Pages of WordPress (virtually stock default install) HHVM 11.99, 11.83, 11.81, 11.78, 11.85 seconds PHP7 11.18, 10.95, 10.85, 10.96, 10.88 seconds
Using
WordPress trunk 4.3 RC2
HHVM trunk 3.9-dev
PHP trunk 7.0 RC1
(on CentOS 7)
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phpinfo page for HHVM HipHop Virtual Machine
So you finally got HHVM 3.2 installed and running
and instinctively go to your phpinfo page to check it out…
but there nothing there, only “HipHop” …disappointing isn’t it?
So I whipped this up real quick as a phpinfo replacement:
HHVMinfo on github or direct download
How to build HHVM 3.8 on CentOS 7
2015 UPDATE: new wiki page for HHVM on CentOS7 with alternate instructions
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While building HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) for faster PHP on CentOS 6.x was pretty much a nightmare because almost none of third-party libraries are available from major repositories, the freshly released CentOS 7.0 solves most of this problem as it has far newer packages available from EPEL (because it has roots in more modern Fedora 19).
Note that unlike PHP/PHPNG, HHVM requires major resources to build. You may be used to making PHP in 15 minutes on a little old 256mb 1ghz box. You can forget that with HHVM which is a beast to compile. 1gb ram minimum and lots of cpu power required to keep it an hour or two (this is part of why PHP NG instead is so exciting because it will be so much easier to custom build).
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