The PHP 7 Story, and beyond
summary
History and benchmarks focus on measurable changes not promises: a JIT prototype yields synthetic 6× speedups but no WordPress gains, so the team rewrites core memory layout — zval shrink 24→16 — and rewrites the memory manager, producing real wins: WordPress ~30% faster, memory per request 37→5 and CPU load ~50% lower, enabling half the servers to be retired; later work (7.2) shows up to ~50% gains on CPU‑bound workloads.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:42About Me
- 1:44How I got involved
- 6:31A Humble Beginning
- 18:41The Premise
- 19:04Full Language-Level Unicode
- 20:00What Ended Up Happening
- 21:09The End
- 34:58Many Other Features
- 36:11PHP 7.1
