My Take on PHP

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Claims that PHP performance can improve by an order of magnitude by avoiding per-request teardown and redoing bootstrap work, proposing to move bootstrapping to module init and control global state to reuse objects safely. Prototype results: a PHP app server built with ReactPHP and phpm shows about 15× faster responses under nginx, and a Go-based server with minimal PHP glue reports 15–20× speedups; memory-leak and request-isolation handling are the main engineering challenges.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:20PHP as a language
3. 3:30Things are getting better
4. 5:00PHP got some of the things right
5. 5:27PHP has a platform
6. 7:20Architecture
7. 7:40Life cycle
8. 8:37Evolution
9. 9:31New PHP
10. 13:03Global Variables
11. 13:53Multiple Requests
12. 14:55PHP Source Code
13. 15:46Memory Leaks
14. 16:23PHP PM

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