Below, we match PHP 7 with its closest competitor HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine). The first one is a programming language created by Rasmus Lerdorf for web development and general purposes, the second one is a virtual machine created by Facebook developers for executing PHP applications. Today, HHVM outperforms all available PHP versions, but everything should be changed with the first stable release of PHP 7 and its further updates. Continue Reading
PHP has been always considered the core of web development, and we should not underestimate its power. However, we should also admit that for the last decade the language started suffering from a sufficient lack of speed and general quality of performance due to fast-growing needs of global Internet community. Eventually, those who experienced the greatest consequences of this change came up with various ideas on how to improve the work of native PHP functionality by introducing the language based alternative implementations. We propose you to look at the most promising PHP based alternatives that will give your web apps a powerful boost and reduce overall server load at least twofold. Continue Reading
