PHP7 @ PHP Day Spain 2015

Presentation of the new PHP version along with bits of history and benchmarks of our Ulabox app at the PHP Day Spain 2015

3. That's Me! Albert Casademont ulabox.com @acasademont (no Linkedin available, sorry!)
7. HipHop Virtual Machine HipHop for PHP
9. PHP6 PHPNG
10. ¡PHP7!
11. but first...
12. Get PHP 5.6 PLEASE
13. variadics
15. splat operator
17. ** operator
19. + nice speed bump
20. PHP7 a.k.a. PHPNG
21. Internals heavily modified data structs (current extensions won't work) call frame optimization new memory manager we finally have an AST! no JIT (yet)
22. Internals Immutable arrays PCRE with JIT new JSON parser ...and more to come (watch Dmitry Stogof's talk on PHP7 internals for more!)
23. Removed features mysql extension :'( ereg extension ASP style tags ...and many more
25. null coalesce https://wiki.php.net/rfc/isset_ternary
27. uniform variable https://wiki.php.net/rfc/uniform_variable_syntax
29. ¡¡¡return types!!! https://wiki.php.net/rfc/return_types
33. ¿named parameters? https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params
35. ¿nullable types? https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_types
37. ¿scalar type hinting? https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints
40. Test environment VM Debian 7 1GB RAM, 1 core, SSD ulabox.com symfony 2 index / product page PHP 5.5 / 5.6 / 7.0 opcache.validate_timestamps = 0 opcache.enable_file_override = 1 HHVM 3.5 Hhvm.server_stat_cache = 1 No extensions! (APCu) Nginx, Redis, Solr, MySQL
41. PHP 5.5 PHP 5.6 XXX XXX 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 102 101 61 64 133 130 79 83 190 190 112 32 Index Product Bench.php msec
42. and the Oscar goes to...
43. PHP 5.5 PHP 5.6 PHP 7.0 HHVM 3.5 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 102 101 61 64 133 130 79 83 190 190 112 32 Index Product Bench.php msec
44. Resources https://wiki.php.net/phpng https://wiki.php.net/rfc http://news.php.net/php.internals https://joind.in/talk/view/12068 https://atlas.hashicorp.com/rasmu s/boxes/php7dev https://github.com/php/php-src
45. gràcies ;)