The Amazing Perks of PHP 7

The new features of PHP 7 explained in pictures and code

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1. The Amazing Perks of
3. HUNH?..... Is that what you think? You are wrong!
6. 1. Did I hear you say slow?
8. “process time was cut in half, which improved overall response time by about 40% since a certain amount of request processing time is spent communicating with the database and daemons.”
9. the overall load on the cluster fell below 50 percent thanks to Hyper-Threading
10. “Additionally, memory use, which had never been a bottleneck for us, was reduced by roughly eight times over!”
11. 2. Spaceship Operator (<=>)
12. 3. Scalar Types
13. 4. Return Types
14. 5. Null Coalescing Operator
15. 6. Constant Array Declaration
16. 7. Anonymous Classes
17. 8. Unicode codepoint escape syntax
18. Unicode Contd.
19. 9. Closure::call()
20. 10. Group `use` declarations
21. 11. Integer division with `intdiv()`
22. 12. Session options
23. 13. PHP 4 style Constructors gone...
24. 14. The All new PRNG Methods
25. 15. Go fail proof with `strict_types`