Overly Hyped
Overly Hyped
Posted Nov 14, 2008 6:11 UTC (Fri) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640)In reply to: Overly Hyped by jwb
Parent article: Things that go Clang in the night: LLVM 2.4 released (ars technica)
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...