What's the benefit over running a standard PHP-Interpreter?
Haven't used PHP or WordPress since 2010 so I might have missed something but to me this looks more like a tech demo then something one would use in a production environment.
For some of the operations highlighted, which are (naturally?) selected to impress. For others, the multiple is in single digits.
WordPress doesn't run 100X faster on Peachpie, but it'd be very interesting to see "real" benchmarks. Even a 2X improvement (vs the latest PHP 7, of course) would be compelling.
Yes, and look at the avg response times. It looks likely that the webserver can't handle the load. The number of concurrent requests should be limited.
While I do know that Azure is owned by Microsoft I'm not so sure on why it's such a valid argument.
In the end it's not like they're actively trying to ruin languages other than C# on their servers? Especially since that would ruin it for a lot of customers?
We will produce these benchmarks soon, but HHVM is pretty difficult to configure and we have not focused on optimizing our compiler much yet, so the performance is likely to change drastically over the coming months.
Hard to say. We want to test it thoroughly before releasing version 1.0. Also, we are still missing a few key functions/constructs of PHP, such as eval() or PDO. A rough timeline would be "a few months" :)
Haven't used PHP or WordPress since 2010 so I might have missed something but to me this looks more like a tech demo then something one would use in a production environment.