PHP 7.0 Is Showing Very Promising Performance Over PHP 5, Closing Gap With HHVM

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PHP 7.0 Is Showing Very Promising Performance Over PHP 5, Closing Gap With HHVM

With PHP 7.0 RC2 having just been released, I've been testing it out thoroughly across a range of Linux systems at Phoronix. To the say the least, the performance claims made by PHP developers about the upcoming PHP7 release are very accurate: it's pretty darn fast and about twice as fast as PHP 5.6. Here are some benchmarks I did on Ubuntu Linux x86_64 comparing the performance of PHP 7.0 RC2 to PHP 5.3/5.4/5.5/5.6, along with some HHVM results tossed in at the end.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=22132

[werfu]

By experience HHVM memory usage has always been higher than PHP equivalent, but in the end, the total memory usage of HHVM vs the whole PHP-FPM pool was always better, not to say that it requires less instance than PHP-FPM to serve the same amount of transaction.

[caligula]

Funny how PHP is becoming more like a statically typed language, their worst nightmare, with every new release. The features and compilation tech are copied from language the PHP users despise the most.

[alegeott]

What do you know of www.hippyvm.com? It is a project developed by the PyPy team (alternative python interpreter).
I'd like to see some test against PHP5, PHP7 and HHVM.
Thanks!

[Michael]

What do you know of www.hippyvm.com? It is a project developed by the PyPy team (alternative python interpreter).
I'd like to see some test against PHP5, PHP7 and HHVM.
Thanks!

Never heard of HippyVM but compiling it now...

[boxie]

Funny how PHP is becoming more like a statically typed language, their worst nightmare, with every new release. The features and compilation tech are copied from language the PHP users despise the most.

And? I for one am welcoming of this change - can't wait to use it!

[Michael]

What do you know of www.hippyvm.com? It is a project developed by the PyPy team (alternative python interpreter).
I'd like to see some test against PHP5, PHP7 and HHVM.
Thanks!

Seems like shit, it can't even startup PTS without problems. Ran into problems when printing some values of an array at start-up.

[uid313]

PHP 7 seems like a great update to PHP. It is much needed.

However, still no decorators/annotations.

Also, still strings, integers and floats aren't objects, so you can't do things like "Meow".toLower(), but have to rely on a bunch of inconsistently, unpredictable named functions that are sometimes named with underscore and sometimes without. All of them residing in (and hence polluting) the global namespace.

Good though is now many functions actually throw exceptions, so you don't have to rely on weird return values such as -1.

[Veske]

An ugly language got even uglier..

[_ck_]

While this is another quality benchmark from phoronix I want to point out that PHP/HHVM are not typically used for raw computational power like these tests are measuring

Other benchmarks to consider might be 1000 "single file" short tests in a series where the fastcgi socket is given a workout and then maybe four parallel versions of that test (for all I know HHVM might still be better in parallel loads vs PHP).

For example my test from last month is less scientific but it shows PHP7 is slightly faster than HHVM for web apps like WordPress when running sequentially

https://ckon.wordpress.com/wordpress-4-3-benchmark-hhvm-vs-php7/

I still have to rig up a parallel load test.