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PHPNG outperforms HHVM While we’re on the topic of HHVM, we reported on PHPNG a while back – an attempt to speed up and optimize PHP internally and bring it closer to the speeds we’ve come to expect from alternative runtimes such as HHVM. It seems they’ve pushed the envelope even

PHPNG outperforms HHVM

further than originally intended, as recent reports seem to indicate that in some cases, PHPNG now outperforms HHVM. What’s in a Name? A whole lot of wasted time and effort, it seems. There’s currently a fiery dispute raging on the PHP internals list about whether or not version 6 in the next edition of PHP should be skipped, in favor of calling it PHP 7 outright. The arguments for the latter include some rather nonsensical ones like “there’s no reason NOT to do it” or “some books with PHP 6 in the title exist out there”, but do read Phil Sturgeon’s take on it to grasp the full absurdity. All in all, I’m in full agreement with Phil on this one –

just agree on something already and do it, enough time has been wasted on this debate, ultimately, it doesn’t matter one bit what it’s going to be called. Killing PSR-0 As we’ve already mentioned Phil Sturgeon, allow me to pitch another article of his. In this one, he argues for the death of PSR-0, and wants everyone to start using PSR-4. We’ve described the difference in a past article, but do give his writeup a read and see for yourself why not upgrading immediately makes no sense. PHP 5.6 Spec The Facebook team is creating a PHP 5.6 language specif


ication. A formal specification which allows anyone to understand, into great detail, how PHP works on the inside. This will allow for faster bugfixes, better alternative runtimes, higher quality extensions and, perhaps most importantly, will reduce ambiguity in various PHP pitfalls like type casting and such. If you’d like to give it a more thorough read with some discussion on the topic, see the reddit thread – it contains a treasure trove of information and some down-to-earth explanations.

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