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by bufferoverflow 2037 days ago
Just tried it on a Laravel project I'm working on, on Windows. Worked flawlessly. On the downside, no noticeable performance improvements.

Report generation times:

PHP 7.4 = 67ms avg

PHP 8.0 = 66ms avg

This is getting the data from MySQL and massaging it for the templates. With Laravel's insane amount of indirection, of course.
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krick 2037 days ago
Why would you expect performace improvements? Because of JIT? There's no reason to hope that JIT would help with that much, because it's I/O-bound anyways. And function calls in PHP are pretty efficient.
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bufferoverflow 2037 days ago
PHP 8 performance improvements were advertised

https://www.fonow.com/Images/2020/0608/9f3a0f6a4f8f2ee.png

https://www.fonow.com/Images/2020/0608/4e9d2337edd2072.png

https://www.fonow.com/Images/2020/0608/70a1c6cff23f4fc.png

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krick 2037 days ago
Oh, come on. Did you see the benchmarks? This is CPU-bound code, like multiplying numbers 100 000 times over. This has nothing to do with your typical use case.

And, yeah, performance improvements are always advertised.

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rovr138 2027 days ago
>This is CPU-bound code, like multiplying numbers 100 000 times over. This has nothing to do with your typical use case.

I think a lot of people missed this. It's not the usual PHP workload for usual/basic web dev.

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