Hi Nicolas, Don’t you think the biggest performance upgrade that PHP could bring is a real application server that could keep the app bootsrapped between requests, much like php-pm/reactphp/aerys are trying to do?
Best, Albert On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 16:11, Nicolas Grekas <nicolas.grekas+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello internals, > > During the last months, I've been working on optimizing Symfony/Twig for > PHP7. > I found a few situations where the PHP engine could likely be optimized, > and where it would benefit real-world apps. > > In each case, these might look like micro-optimizations, but they are not > in hot loops. > Here are the links to issues I created in the php bug tracker: > > - Class constants are slow: they should be inlined at runtime - > https://bugs.php.net/76178 > - Add array_key_exists() to the list of specialy compiled functions - > https://bugs.php.net/76148 > - Don't trigger copy-on-write when assigning same value - > https://bugs.php.net/76150 > > As a bonus, I also created this one today: > - Add hrtime() to zend_try_compile_special_func() - > https://bugs.php.net/76241 > > It would be awesome if those ideas could be implemented in a future PHP > version. > (I'm sorry I don't have the knowledge to do it myself.) > > Keep up the good work! > > Nicolas >
