
The developers were mainly focused on speeding up HHVM for WordPress, Drupal 7, and MediaWiki workloads. According to today's blog post, "During lockdown we achieved a 19.4% RPS improvement for Mediawiki workloads, and a 1.8% RPS improvement for WordPress. We demonstrated that HHVM is 55.5% faster than PHP 7 on a Mediawiki workload, 18.7% faster on a WordPress workload, and 10.2% faster on a Drupal 7 workload. Improvements made to HHVM to better serve open source frameworks will ship with the next release."
These gains are quite exciting given that PHP 7 is already proving to be much faster than PHP 5. As soon as the next HHVM benchmark is out, we'll carry out our own PHP benchmarks on Phoronix.
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