Using V8 Javascript engine as a PHP extension (update: write PHP session)
"We Are Borg PHP. We Will Assimilate You. Resistance Is Futile!" Just got to something described as: This extension embeds the V8 Javascript Engine into PHP. It is called v8js and the documentation is already available on php.net , examples and the sources are here . V8 is known to work well in browsers and webservers like node.js, but does it work inside PHP? YES! Here is the installation on Ubuntu 12.04: sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear libv8-dev build-essential sudo pecl install v8js sudo echo extension=v8js.so >>/etc/php5/cli/php.ini sudo echo extension=v8js.so >>/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini php -m | grep v8 Let's run a small test script: <?php $start = microtime(true); $array = array(); for ($i=0; $i<50000; $i++) $array[] = $i*2; $array2 = array(); for ($i=20000; $i<21000; $i++) $array2[] = $i*2; foreach ($array as $val) { foreach ($array2 as $val2) if ($val == $val2) {} } echo (microtime(true)-$start)."\n"; // 8.60s $star...