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First steps with HHVM and Vagrant

38 points by allanmacgregor 13y ago

allanmacgregor 13y ago
As promised if you want to skip the whole setup you can download the configured vagrant box by doing the following: - mkdir vagrant-hhvm - cd vagrant-hhvm - vagrant init - vagrant box add hhvmdev https://www.dropbox.com/s/5qyjkes49nk5abt/package.box
- semiquaver 13y ago
  Chances are anyone using vagrant will already have a box called 'base' -- it might be a good idea to call this one something else.
zrail 13y ago
Those bold things in the first paragraph would be wonderful if they were links. As is, I was deeply frustrated by my inability to do anything other than highlight them.
- allanmacgregor 13y ago
  Link added to the first article, anything else you would like linked?
  - strager 13y ago
    Magento and HipHop/HPHP/HHVM, at least.
    - allanmacgregor 13y ago
      Links added for Magento and HHVM
bhauer 13y ago
Speaking of HHVM, would any PHP subject matter experts be interested in submitting pull requests to add HHVM tests to our project [1]? It would be worthwhile to see raw PHP and one or two mainstream PHP frameworks on HHVM versus the existing nginx/FPM configuration of the same. [1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/ https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/
- allanmacgregor 13y ago
  Very interesting,my main goal with HHVM is to be able to run Magento which is Zend based. I will certainly take a look, and maybe try to submit a few tests.
kodablah 13y ago
HHVM has a bytecode format, an intermediate language (though just via C++ AST's I believe), and a fairly clean FFI interface to C++. I would be really interested if FB opened up the details a tad more than the two txt files in docs and made it easier for non-PHP devs to play around with writing a frontend for a new/different language.
- allanmacgregor 13y ago
  I see what you mean, that would be really interesting to see and its probably not going to make sense for all languages. PHP to C++ is an easy win since PHP is so slow compared to many modern languages and frameworks.
MAGZine 13y ago
Last time I tried to use HH, there was no proper php5.4 support. no traits made HH a no-go. Compiled with the fact that namespacing didn't work right, it was just not viable. That was a few months ago though, so maybe things are better now.

As promised if you want to skip the whole setup you can download the configured vagrant box by doing the following: - mkdir vagrant-hhvm - cd vagrant-hhvm - vagrant init - vagrant box add hhvmdev https://www.dropbox.com/s/5qyjkes49nk5abt/package.box

semiquaver 13y ago
Chances are anyone using vagrant will already have a box called 'base' -- it might be a good idea to call this one something else.

zrail 13y ago

Those bold things in the first paragraph would be wonderful if they were links. As is, I was deeply frustrated by my inability to do anything other than highlight them.

allanmacgregor 13y ago
Link added to the first article, anything else you would like linked?
- strager 13y ago
  Magento and HipHop/HPHP/HHVM, at least.
  - allanmacgregor 13y ago
    Links added for Magento and HHVM

bhauer 13y ago

Speaking of HHVM, would any PHP subject matter experts be interested in submitting pull requests to add HHVM tests to our project [1]? It would be worthwhile to see raw PHP and one or two mainstream PHP frameworks on HHVM versus the existing nginx/FPM configuration of the same. [1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/ https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/

allanmacgregor 13y ago
Very interesting,my main goal with HHVM is to be able to run Magento which is Zend based. I will certainly take a look, and maybe try to submit a few tests.

kodablah 13y ago

HHVM has a bytecode format, an intermediate language (though just via C++ AST's I believe), and a fairly clean FFI interface to C++. I would be really interested if FB opened up the details a tad more than the two txt files in docs and made it easier for non-PHP devs to play around with writing a frontend for a new/different language.

allanmacgregor 13y ago
I see what you mean, that would be really interesting to see and its probably not going to make sense for all languages. PHP to C++ is an easy win since PHP is so slow compared to many modern languages and frameworks.

MAGZine 13y ago

Last time I tried to use HH, there was no proper php5.4 support. no traits made HH a no-go. Compiled with the fact that namespacing didn't work right, it was just not viable. That was a few months ago though, so maybe things are better now.