PHP 7.4-RC1 Released With The Performance Looking Real Good - PHP 7.4 Benchmarks

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Phoronix: PHP 7.4-RC1 Released With The Performance Looking Real Good - PHP 7.4 Benchmarks

PHP 7.4-RC1 was released this week as this next annual update to the PHP programming implementation nears. Here is a look at how the PHP 7.4-RC1 performance looks like compared to the major releases going back to PHP 5.6...

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[tildearrow]

access C functions/variables/structions,

Structions... I thought it was structures?

[Michael]

Structions... I thought it was structures?

Yep

[Alex/AT]

Honestly, ??= is the best here. It is a next good proposed lifesaver, close to ??, I'm already tired of writing long if-!isset()-based sub-array and counter initializers for all these years. Now it would be just $arr1[$key1] ??= []; or $arr1[$key1] ??= 0;

New object serialization approach seems pretty logical as well indeed.

And yeah it clearly seems like we are in for some other few % of performance improvements. Thanks for benching it!

[boxie]

hey Michael - are there any memory usage changes?

[uid313]

PHP 7.4 also comes with typed properties which lets you write more robust code.

[cen1]

TGA support, yeah! Needed that 10 years ago! Nice.

[nomadewolf]

Honestly, ??= is the best here. It is a next good proposed lifesaver, close to ??, I'm already tired of writing long if-!isset()-based sub-array and counter initializers for all these years. Now it would be just $arr1[$key1] ??= []; or $arr1[$key1] ??= 0;

New object serialization approach seems pretty logical as well indeed.

And yeah it clearly seems like we are in for some other few % of performance improvements. Thanks for benching it!

IMHO,
Performance is always welcome, and should be the main focus of every project.
However, taking the opportunity to make small incremmental improvements in other areas should also be taken...