Lame PHP Parser, visualization and how cool hhvm is!

Created a "Lame PHP Parser" that in this picture visualizes it's own sourcecode!

I thought the output was pretty cool.

It's not the most efficient code, which is fine for my current use case. I was wondering if I could speed it up with Facebook's HHVM (HipHop VM), a PHP virtual machine.

HipHop VM executes the code 5,82 times faster!(*)

Parsing the Symfony code in my 'vendor' directory, takes ~57 seconds with the PHP executable provided by Ubuntu.

PHP 5.5.3-1ubuntu2.1 (cli) (built: Dec 12 2013 04:24:35) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.3-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2013, by Zend Technologies

Benchmarks from three successive runs:

• real 0m57,34s, user 0m56,75s, sys 0m0,29s
• real 0m57,18s, user 0m56,58s, sys 0m0,28s
• real 0m58,38s, user 0m57,72s, sys 0m0,34s

Parsing the same directory three times with hhvm.

HipHop VM 3.0.1 (rel)
Compiler: tags/HHVM-3.0.1-0-g97c0ac06000e060376fdac4a7970e954e77900d6
Repo schema: a1146d49c5ba0d6db903beb3a4ed8a3766fef182

Benchmarks from three successive runs:

• real 0m9,86s, user 0m9,04s, sys 0m0,54s
• real 0m9,85s, user 0m9,15s, sys 0m0,45s
• real 0m9,74s, user 0m9,06s, sys 0m0,44s

(*) 57.34 / 9.86 = 5,815415822