This document discusses PHP 7 and alternative PHP implementations like HHVM. It provides an overview of PHP 7 features like a reworked engine and true 64-bit support. It also discusses alternative implementations like HHVM, which uses a just-in-time compiler to compile PHP to native machine code, and Zephir, which allows PHP code to be compiled to C code for performance benefits. Finally, it shares benchmarks showing performance improvements of these implementations over PHP 5.