You definitely did not have a deep look at "how to optimize wordpress". It's a massive spaghetti piece of awful PHP that does A LOT of completely unnecessary wo

You definitely did not have a deep look at "how to optimize wordpress". It's a massive spaghetti piece of awful PHP that does A LOT of completely unnecessary work. Now as a smart VM, it's possible to reduce quite a bit this amount of work (inlining etc.) and the JIT coming from HHVM can come handy in here.