Schedule FrOSCon

Lecture: Alternative PHP Runtimes

August 25, 2012
HS6
Language: en
PHP

Summary

This session presents an overview of alternative PHP runtime environments and provides an insight into their feasability for production use.

Description

When you say "PHP" you mean the programming language PHP. This implicitly refers to the PHP Interpreter that is developed by the PHP project and that can be downloaded from PHP.net. Aside from this reference implementation of PHP there are alternative runtime environments for PHP, such as Facebook's HipHop.

This session presents an overview of these alternatives and provides an insight into their feasability for production use.

Sebastian Bergmann has believed in Open Source from day one. He has a university degree in...