Author: Ronan Lamy <ronan.l...@gmail.com> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r5410:ef7b6443a343 Date: 2014-09-19 11:35 +0100 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/ef7b6443a343/
Log: merge heads diff --git a/talk/brno-php-2014/talk.rst b/talk/brno-php-2014/talk.rst new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/talk/brno-php-2014/talk.rst @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +HippyVM - yet another attempt at PHP performance +------------------------------------------------ + +Who am I? +--------- + +* Maciej Fijalkowski + +* PyPy developer for about 8 years + +* main author of hippyvm + +* founder of baroquesoftware.com + +HippyVM +------- + +* a PHP interpreter (essentially), runs php code + +|pause| + +* has a just in time compiler, which makes it fast + +|pause| + +* dual licensing, commercial and open source + +HippyVM status +-------------- + +* runs a lot of PHP test suite + +* misses a lot of builtin functions + +* can kind of "run" wordpress, mediawiki, getting there + +* cgi, fastcgi (not open source) + +* quick XXX do you mean 'fast'? but next slide already says 'fast' + +HippyVM status - short +---------------------- + +* fast, compliant + +* not quite ready + +Let's talk about performance +---------------------------- + +* "I want my website to run faster" + +* "I'm going to compare various languages, implementations" + +|pause| + +* "I'll use a recursive fibonacci function" + +Performance +----------- + +* a very complex picture + +* bottlenecks depend on the use case + +* libraries, programmers, styles matter + +Performance - let's try science +------------------------------- + +* get a set of programs (small, medium, large) + +* compare them + +* don't use a single number + +PHP performance +--------------- + +* number of requests per second + +* loading the code + +* accessing the DB + +* gluing it all together + +PHP performance landscape +------------------------- + +* Zend PHP + +* HHVM + +* php-ng + +* HippyVM + +* other projects + +Current HippyVM performance +--------------------------- + +* we can't really compare large things (mediawiki ~on par) + +* small and medium between 2x faster - 2x slower than HHVM + +|pause| + +* very hand-wavy, but you really need to do it yourself + +|pause| + +* consider bottlenecks differ depending on implementation + +Performance - personal opinions +------------------------------- + +* the language should be easy **for a programmer** + +* the language implementation can be complex + +* libraries, patterns and the ecosystem matter for anything non-trivial + +Performance - questions +----------------------- + +* ? + +HippyVM history +--------------- + +* started as a facebook research project + +* got some funding to pursue as a commercial project + +* an offspin of PyPy technology + +PyPy +---- + +* a fast, compliant Python interpreter + +* 0.5%-1% of Python market share + +* a framework for building efficient interpreters + +* 10 years of research + +* fully Open Source, EU funded project + +PyPy history +------------ + +xxxx + +HippyVM history +--------------- + +xxxx _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
