On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote:

> 3) Revert WMF to Zend and forget about HHVM. This will result in
> performance degradation, however it will not be that dramatic: when we
> upgraded, we switched to HHVM from PHP 5.3 which was really outdated,
> while 5.6 and 7 provided nice performance improvements.
>

In particular, I've heard good things about PHP 7 performance. Someone less
lazy than I am at 5pm might want to do some research on that though.

I can say that PHP 7 locally runs unit tests significantly faster than PHP
5.6, although that's not really a representative workload for running a
website.


-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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