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In 2017, HHVM was the performance shortcut: Facebook's JIT, WordPress and Laravel faster than Ubuntu's PHP 5.6\/7.0. Nine years later, Zend Engine won the game \u2014 PHP 7, then 8, proper OPcache, JIT in 8.0, and in 2026, PHP 8.5.10 (27 August) already comes with built-in OPcache. Anyone still typing <\/p>\n Facebook grew tired of interpreting PHP in 2010. First came HPHPc: a PHP-to-C++ transpiler. Compiling the entire site at every deployment was slow, Along with HHVM 3.0 (March 2014) came Hack<\/strong>: PHP with gradual typing, without If the goal of the 2017 post was \u201cfaster PHP on Ubuntu,\u201d this is it today. On 26.04, PHP 8.5 is already in the official archive:<\/p>\n On 24.04 LTS<\/strong> the archive provides 8.3. For 8.5, Ond\u0159ej Sur\u00fd's PPA (the same one as always):<\/p>\n There is no package The gains HHVM sold in 2016 (Kinsta, WordPress, Drupal) are delivered by PHP 8 with OPcache enabled and, for CPU workloads, with JIT. In FPM:<\/p>\n HHVM spoke FastCGI. So does PHP-FPM. In Nginx, Those hosting multiple sites on the same Ubuntu machine can still add a control panel on top \u2014 this blog's older coverage is in ISPConfig on Debian<\/a> and in the history of ISPConfig<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then HHVM makes sense. Not for PHP. The runtime lives at facebook\/hhvm<\/a> (commits continue in 2026); the language at hacklang.org<\/a>. A ready-made package for current Ubuntu is not the production route: Meta no longer publishes releases. Compile from git, use an old Docker image or the company's internal binary. Extension Ubuntu 14.04\/16.04, old GPG key, HHVM 3.15.2 speaking PHP 5 and part of 7. Do not run this on a new machine.<\/p>\n The output at the time: compiler HHVM won the argument of 2014\u20132017: JIT, Hack, facebook.com without HPHPc. PHP 7\/8 copied the performance lesson and kept the ecosystem. In 2026, on Ubuntu, The kernel underneath: Linux turns 35<\/a>. A container around it, if applicable: The history of Docker<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2017, HHVM was the performance shortcut: Facebook\u2019s JIT, WordPress and Laravel running faster than Ubuntu\u2019s PHP 5.6\/7.0. Nine years later, Zend Engine won \u2014 PHP 7, then 8, a proper OPcache, \u2026 Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,2,3],"tags":[239,60,14,4,240,237,238,5],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hhvm","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-hack","tag-hhvm","tag-howto","tag-linux","tag-nginx","tag-php","tag-php-fpm","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linuxpro.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}apt install hhvm<\/code> with PHP in mind is installing a VM for another language.<\/p>\nFrom HipHop to Hack: what HHVM was<\/h2>\n
eval()<\/code> did not exist, and the performance ceiling arrived. In 2011, Jason Evans announced the successor: HipHop Virtual Machine. Code becomes HHBC bytecode; the JIT translates it to x86-64 at runtime. In the first quarter of 2013, facebook.com abandoned HPHPc.<\/p>\ngoto<\/code> and without variable variables. The VM began serving two languages. In September 2018, Fred Emmott stated the obvious \u2014 PHP 7 had diverged too far. 3.30 would be the last with PHP. On 11 February 2019, 4.0 removed <?php<\/code> from the map. Those who wanted fast WordPress stayed with PHP-FPM; HHVM remained for Meta's Hack (and, for a time, Slack's).<\/p>\nWhat changed since 2017<\/h2>\n
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dl.hhvm.com<\/code> and the GPG key 0x5a16e7281be7a449<\/code> from this post no longer serve PHP. The later key (0xB4112585D386EB94<\/code>) does not bring back an HHVM that runs Laravel either.<\/li>\napt<\/code> package reliable for PHP production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n2026: PHP 8.5 and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu<\/h2>\n
sudo apt update\nsudo apt install php-cli php-fpm php-mysql php-xml php-mbstring php-curl php-zip php-gd php-intl php-bcmath\nphp -v\n# PHP 8.5.x (cli) \u2026 with Zend OPcache v8.5.x\nsystemctl status php8.5-fpm --no-pager\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej\/php\nsudo apt update\nsudo apt install php8.5-cli php8.5-fpm php8.5-{mysql,xml,mbstring,curl,zip,gd,intl,bcmath}\nsudo update-alternatives --set php \/usr\/bin\/php8.5\nphp -v\n<\/code><\/pre>\nphp8.5-opcache<\/code>: OPcache is part of the runtime. FPM socket: \/run\/php\/php8.5-fpm.sock<\/code>.<\/p>\nOPcache and JIT, what HHVM promised<\/h2>\n
sudo tee \/etc\/php\/8.5\/fpm\/conf.d\/99-opcache.ini <<'EOF'\nopcache.enable=1\nopcache.memory_consumption=256\nopcache.interned_strings_buffer=32\nopcache.max_accelerated_files=20000\nopcache.validate_timestamps=0\nopcache.jit=tracing\nopcache.jit_buffer_size=64M\nEOF\nsudo systemctl restart php8.5-fpm\nphp -i | grep -E 'opcache.enable|opcache.jit'\n<\/code><\/pre>\nvalidate_timestamps=0<\/code> in production: after deployment, restart FPM. JIT helps little with plain WordPress (database I\/O); it helps in CPU-bound sections. Do not enable Xdebug in front of JIT.<\/p>\nNginx in front of FPM<\/h2>\n
fastcgi_pass<\/code> points to the version's socket:<\/p>\nlocation ~ .php$ {\n include snippets\/fastcgi-php.conf;\n fastcgi_pass unix:\/run\/php\/php8.5-fpm.sock;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo apt install nginx\nsudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx\n<\/code><\/pre>\nStill want Hack?<\/h2>\n
.hack<\/code>, typechecker hh_client<\/code>, HTTP through built-in Proxygen or FastCGI. WordPress, Laravel, and Composer are not on that list.<\/p>\nHistorical record: what this post installed in 2017<\/h2>\n
# N\u00c3O use em 2026 \u2014 chave e s\u00e9rie obsoletas\nsudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp:\/\/keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0x5a16e7281be7a449\nsudo add-apt-repository \"deb http:\/\/dl.hhvm.com\/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main\"\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install hhvm\nhhvm --version\n# HipHop VM 3.15.2 (rel)\n<\/code><\/pre>\ntags\/HHVM-3.15.2<\/code>, repo schema 608339137764e8365964a1adaa7a27d125b6076f<\/code>. The original \u201cAbout HHVM\u201d still talked about \u201cHack and PHP.\u201d That phrase died in 4.0.<\/p>\nWrap-up<\/h2>\n
apt install php-fpm<\/code> is this how-to's successor. The orange H on the cover still belongs to the VM \u2014 but the VM now speaks Hack, not the index.php<\/code> of your WordPress.<\/p>\n