As PHP 7 became a reality through this past year, there were scores of benchmarks pitting PHP 7 against 5.6 and HHVM using applications and frameworks like Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Laravel, October, etc.

One benchmark that really stood out to me (in that it seemed so wrong for Drupal, based on my experience) was The Definitive PHP 7.0 & HHVM Benchmark from Kinsta. Naming a benchmark that way certainly makes the general PHP populace take it seriously!

The results are pretty damning for PHP 7:

In the comments on that post, Thomas Svenson mentioned: