On 19/09/17 06:58, Max Semenik wrote: > Today, the HHVM developers made an announcement[1] that they have plans of > ceasing to maintain 100% PHP7 compatibility and concentrating on Hack > instead.
The HHVM team did tell us privately that they were planning on changing their strategy, basically as you describe it above. The surprising things for me in this announcement were: * The plan to also drop PHP 5 compatibility, on a short timeline (1 year). * Rather than "drifting away" from PHP, their top priority plans include removing core language features like references and destructors. > While this does not mean that we need to take an action immediately, > eventually we will have to decide something. Actually, I think a year is a pretty short time for ops to switch to PHP 7. I think we need to decide on this pretty much immediately. > 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 upgraded, we switched to HHVM from PHP 5.3 which was really outdated, while 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. > > I personally think that 3) is the only viable option in the long run. What > do you think? Yes, I think it's the only viable option. I'll run a benchmark, but I don't see how it could influence the decision. It'll be more for capacity planning. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
