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Browserling vs HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine): What are the differences?
What is Browserling? Interactive cross-browser testing. We run the browsers on our servers. Fully interactive sessions, not static screenshots. No flash, no applets, nothing to install. Powered entirely by
What is HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)? An open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. To date, HHVM (and its predecessor HPHPc before it) has realized over a 9x increase in web request throughput and over a 5x reduction in memory consumption for Facebook compared with the PHP 5.2 engine + APC.
Browserling and HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) are primarily classified as "Browser Testing" and "Virtual Machine" tools respectively.
HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) is an open source tool with 16.1K GitHub stars and 2.85K GitHub forks. Here's a link to HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)'s open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Browserling
Pros of HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)
- Very fast30
- Drop-in PHP replacement24
- Works well with nginx14
- Backed by Facebook14
- Open source12
- Statically checked, typed language1