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Alternative PHP runtimes

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Alternative PHP runtimes

Attila-Mihaly Balazs
Software Panther @ Synapp.io

PROGRAMMING

PHP is a very popular dynamically typed scripting language available on a variety of operating systems. There are however alternatives to the standard interpreter which provide various features that may be advantageous in certain circumstances. This article aims to provide a theoretical and practical overview of the existing options. The practical part consists of running the synthetic performance test from the PHP source tree against each runtime and testing a WordPress site with Apache Bench .