Zeev Suraski (Zend CTO) recently released some benchmarking figures comparing HHVM to PHPNG (and PHP 5.6). I was particularly interested in the results for SugarCRM. They show a 14-28% speed benefit in favor of PHPNG. I decided to investigate, and ran some basic benchmarks with siege.
It came up with the following results:
| Trans/sec | |
|---|---|
| PHPNG | 24.12 |
| HHVM | 20.74 |
| Diff. | 16.29% |