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by MichaelGG 4571 days ago
Does HHVM get massive gains for "normal" PHP code? I remember reading something about FB's early efforts, and there were strict guidelines about proper usage and whatnot.

I have no idea how "good" "normal" PHP code is written compared to Ruby/Python.
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NickSharp 4571 days ago
We tried HHVM for use with our "normal" PHP.

There was a measurable performance increase, but it was disappointing overall. Perhaps my initial hopes were too high.

Our company is small and engineering/ops resources are very limited, leading to a lot of pragmatic decisions. After a few days of experimentation, I decided that HHVM was promising, but for us it's not yet worth the extra ops infrastructure.

We get much bigger improvements tuning other pieces of our stack.

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dubcanada 4571 days ago
It works for Wordpress and Drupal, and those contain 90% of PHP functions. I mean there are times you will find issues or what not, but for the most part it's pretty good.
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