Performance Insight into PHP7 (faster than HHVM 3.7)

Looks like they finally got it faster than HHVM by about 5% which is rather impressive.

Sure hope that is a fair comparison against HHVM with a warm jit cache.

Oh geez, they removed mysql_* from PHP 7.

That's going to be a showstopper for hundreds of thousands of sites not being able to upgrade easily. That's a real shame.

Oh wait, all is not lost, the PECL extension in theory can be compiled into PHP7 http://pecl.php.net/package/mysql