PHP 8 Revealed: Use Attributes, the JIT Compiler, Union Types, and More for Web Development​

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G. EngebrethPHP 8 Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6818-6_1

1. JIT Compiler

Gunnard Engebreth¹  

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Madison, WI, USA

 

Date: 2019-01-28

Author: Dmitry Stogov, Zeev Suraski

Vote: 50/2

A concern I have with the current RFC is a lack of a good case for why it should be necessary; the case for JIT is based on performance benefits, but the examples provided are unconvincing to me because they seem too contrived. Both bench.php and drawing fractals represent a best-case example for a JIT, small programs which do heavy arithmetic and not much else. Maybe PHP being able to be used for this kind of software would be cool, but it wouldn’t justify the added complexity ...