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it's not really so much a brand name as just getting the concept out there. php developers don't realize that there are option when it comes to the runtime. i
by jcoby 17y ago
it's not really so much a brand name as just getting the concept out there. php developers don't realize that there are option when it comes to the runtime.
i would guess that the majority of them wouldn't even know to look for phpc or any alternative. there just hasn't been any news of something like HPHP before HPHP. if you want to run php, you go to php.net or install it from a package and go from there.
combine the above with very little actual need, very little public information on how to build a large site, and lack of maintainer interest and phpc just won't get major traction.
I would have loved to have found phpc several years ago when i was still working on a large site that had performance problems.
- robryan 17y agoIt wouldn't really surprise me if a lot of the people freelancing in PHP wouldn't know enough about the interpreter so see any advantage in compiled code.
- jcoby 17y agoa freelancer wouldn't know and if they did they wouldn't care. (i am a freelancer.) we're talking about websites that are in the top 5% of all sites (by traffic) that would even need to think about using something like phpc or hphp. the number of those that would be willing to use a freelancer to handle their scaling issues are probably in the single digits at best.
- pbiggar 17y agoOn a tangent, I wonder why lots of people call it something other than "phc". I said phc a lot, its on the website as phc, but I've heard phpc, phpcompiler, and tons of variations. I'm curious why.