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Overly Hyped

Overly Hyped

Posted Nov 14, 2008 0:38 UTC (Fri) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: Overly Hyped by clugstj
Parent article: Things that go Clang in the night: LLVM 2.4 released (ars technica)

Well there are actually lots of papers about how well llvm's generated code performs. I read one regarding the llvm php project that was only about 100x slower than the regular php interpreter ...

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Overly Hyped

Posted Nov 14, 2008 6:11 UTC (Fri) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640) [Link]

The point of the php project was to test how fast it takes to write a LLVM based php JIT compiler. It took two days.

Ofcourse something written in two days isn't going to be optimized at all, or be any kind of competition PHP's zend engine which has been tuned for 10 years...


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