My Take on PHP
summary
Demonstrates concrete work: Composer, HHVM, ReactPHP and Symfony components drive measurable gains; a PHP-based server on nginx reports 15× speedup for fat Symfony apps and a Go-written application server with PHP glue reports up to 20× speedup versus PHP-FPM nginx. Explains root costs: repeated bootstrap, global state, autoload teardown and per-request cleanup, and shows prototyped solutions that reuse initialization to avoid memory churn and heavy object re-creation. Mentions platform reach like 80% of the web.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:20PHP as a language
- 3:30Things are getting better
- 5:00PHP got some of the things right
- 5:27PHP has a platform
- 7:20Architecture
- 7:40Life cycle
- 8:37Evolution
- 9:31New PHP
- 13:03Global Variables
- 13:53Multiple Requests
- 14:55PHP Source Code
- 15:46Memory Leaks
- 16:23PHP PM
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