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PHP 7.0.0 RC 1 Released (php.net)
15 points by cwt137 on Aug 21, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6

This is from the new Zend Engine which uses PHPNG. I was unaware of this, but it sounds like a massive improvement. From http://www.zend.com/en/resources/php-7

>To put things in perspective – when PHPNG was published, the WordPress homepage required approx. 9.4 billion CPU instructions to execute. As of now – it requires only 2.6 billion – that’s 72% less!

I was also unfamiliar with anonymous classes, which sound nice for creating maintainable code bases as they are often described as "reducing clutter."




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