The PHP7 Story - Zeev Suraski

לאחר יותר מעשור ללא גרסה מאג'ורית של PHP – גרסה 7 מהווה אבן דרך משמעותית ומלהיבה בהסטוריה של השפה. PHP 7 מבטיחה להביא שיפורי ביצועים מרחיקי דרך בשילוב מגוון של יכולות חדשות. בהרצאה זו, זאב יתאר את האבולוציה של הגרסאות המרכזיות של PHP, את סיפור "מאחורי הקלעים" של הולדתה של PHP 7 ואת היכולות המרכזיות החדשות של השפה.

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1. Zeev Suraski

   WordCamp Israel 2016
   

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2. • 3 daughters
   • Photography enthusiast
   • Crazy about spicy foods
   • CS graduate at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
   • Early technological career – GW-BASIC apps, C++ CGIs, C&C army systems
   • Co-architect of PHP, Co-founder & CTO of Zend
   About Me
   

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3. How I got involved
   

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4. A Humble Beginning
   4
   

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5. PHP’s popular. Really.
   

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6. EVOLUTION
   

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7. PHP 3.0
   ● Released: June 1998
   ● New Features:
   ● Full fledged language
   ● Extensions
   

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8. PHP 4.0
   ● Released: May 2000
   ● New Features:
   ● Zend Engine
   ● Modularity
   ● Sessions
   ● Downwards compatibility (!)
   ● Language plugins
   

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9. PHP 5
   ● 5.0: July 2004
   ● New Features:
   ● New “true“ object model
   ● Destructors
   ● Exception handling
   ● Not Slower
   ● Seeds were sown...
   

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10. PHP Performance Evolution

    bench.php (lower is better)
    0 3.5 7 10.5 14
    12.682
    12.537
    4.679
    4.201
    2.911
    2.177
    2.031
    1.92
    5.6 (Aug 2014)
    5.5 (Jun 2013)
    5.4 (Mar 2012)
    5.3 (Nov 2009)
    5.2 (Nov 2006)
    5.1 (Nov 2005)
    5.0 (Jul 2004)
    4.4 (Jul 2005)
    

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11. Putting Things in Perspective
    0 20 40 60 80
    75
    12.682
    12.537
    4.679
    4.201
    2.911
    2.177
    2.031
    1.92
    5.6 (Aug 2014)
    5.5 (Jun 2013)
    5.4 (Mar 2012)
    5.3 (Nov 2009)
    5.2 (Nov 2006)
    5.1 (Nov 2005)
    5.0 (Jul 2004)
    4.4 (Jul 2005)
    3.0 (Jun 1998)
    

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12. PHP 6
    

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13. The Premise
    

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14. Full Language-Level Unicode
    

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15. What Ended Up Happening
    phpBB
    phpMyAdmin
    WordPress
    0 55 110 165 220
    101.3
    182.4
    206.1
    72.8
    134
    113.6
    PHP 6.0
    PHP 5.3
    Bonus: Roughly doubled memory footprint.
    

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16. The End
    http://bit.ly/php6whathappened
    

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17. PHP 7
    

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18. Leading up to PHP 7
    2012:
    Research PHP+JIT

    begins, led by Dmitry

    Stogov
    2014:

    No performance gains realized for real-
    world workloads
    

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19. 19
    Jan 2014 Mar 2014
    May
    2014
    Aug
    2014
    • Split from mainstream PHP
    • Internals focus only (no new
    features)
    • Stay 100% compatible
    • Compiled core
    • Ran bench.php
    • Ran WordPress
    • Moved from POC to
    public community project
    • Merged back to
    master as base for
    PHP 7 (after vote)
    Post-JIT Timeline
    

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20. We Kept Improving It
    • Performance more than doubled since phpng published
    • Perspective: WP homepage, from 9.4bn CPU ops to 2.4bn CPU ops
    

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21. Hash Table Bucket zVal
    PHP5 PHP7
    20%
    5%
    Memory Manager CPU Overhead (WP)
    Memory Consumption of key Data Structures
    (bytes)
    What Made the Difference?
    

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22. PHP 7: WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
    

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23. It’s FAST
    

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24. PHP Performance Evolution

    bench.php (lower is better)
    0 3.5 7 10.5 14
    12.682
    12.537
    4.679
    4.201
    2.911
    2.177
    2.031
    1.92
    0.783
    7.0 (May 2015)
    5.6 (Aug 2014)
    5.5 (Jun 2013)
    5.4 (Mar 2012)
    5.3 (Nov 2009)
    5.2 (Nov 2006)
    5.1 (Nov 2005)
    5.0 (Jul 2004)
    

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25. Real World Application Benchmarks

    (% improvement vs. PHP 5.6)
    

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26. Badoo Case Study
    • Estimated $1M plus plus $100K/yr savings on App Server Cluster
    

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27. More Performance Info
    • http://bit.ly/php7perf
    • http://bit.ly/php7fast
    • http://bit.ly/php7mandel
    

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28. Engine Exceptions
    • Many E_ERRORS and E_RECOVERABLE_ERRORs are now
    exceptions.
    try {
    call_method(null); // oops!
    } catch (EngineException $e) {
    echo "Exception: {$e->getMessage()}\n";
    }
    • Significantly easier vs. error handler
    

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29. Return Type Declarations 

    & Scalar Type Hints
    • Declare type of return value of functions

    function foobar(): int {

    return 1.0;

    }
    • New Scalar Type Hints. In two flavors.

    function add(int $a, int $b): int {

    return $a + $b;

    }
    

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30. Zero Cost assert() (expectations)
    • assert() is a language construct in PHP 7
    – Configurable for dev/prod:
    • zend.assertions = 0 → completely ignored (prod)
    • zend.assertions = 1 → assertions enabled (dev/test)
    – First arg can be an expression
    – Second arg can be an exception
    

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31. Other Notable New Features
    • The Spaceship Operator
    $x <=> $y
    • Uniform Variable Syntax
    • Abstract Syntax Tree
    • Filtered Unserialize
    • The Null Coalesce operator
    ($x ?? $y) ~= ($x ? $x : $y)
    • Full List: http://bit.ly/php7news
    $foo->$bar['baz']
    $foo->{$bar['baz']} (5.x)
    ($foo->$bar)['baz'] (7.0+)
    

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32. GOING FORWARD
    

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33. © All rights reserved. Zend Technologies, Inc.
    
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