The good people at Facebook have developed a fastcgi replacement for PHP-FPM called HHVM. HHVM is a just in time bytecode compiler that they say increases performance of web applications by as much as 10x. Anything that makes promises like this is immediately going to get my attention so I decided to try it out. Continue reading “Project Titanicarus: Part 7.2 – Supercharging PHP with HHVM”