The PHP Journey: To PHP 7 and Beyond
summary
History of PHP from quick CGI scripts to a modern runtime and concrete engineering tradeoffs: PHP 6’s Unicode effort fails and is abandoned, JIT prototypes give big synthetic gains but little real‑world WordPress speedup, a relentless “diet” of core data structures (notably zval shrunk from 24 to 16 bytes) yields roughly 2× runtime speed and dramatic memory wins, case study shows memory per request drops ~40MB to ~5MB and CPU load halves, work continues on FFI for native libraries and a Node‑like long‑running execution model for microservices.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 12:15Object Orientation
- 13:57Php 5
- 18:46Performance
- 29:38Future Directions
- 38:30Laravel
- 39:19Better Support from Multi-Threading
- 40:49What Was I Using To Develop Php
- 41:19How Do You Feel about the Future of Php
- 42:00Why Learn a New Language for the Backend
- 43:22Thoughts on the Value of Becoming as in Certified Php Developer
