PHP 7.1 Update: Performance is more important than syntax

With PHP 7.0 dramatically improving speed, version 7.1 continues to optimize performance on Web servers.

The specific features are not yet clear, but there is still room for improvement in performance, said Zeev Suraski, CTO of Zend, who led the development of the PHP engine. "Although the performance of this version does not have 7.0 as a leap breakthrough, but we still focus on performance." ”

Zuaraski says there are a lot of RFCs (Request for Comments) at the grammatical level, but it's not certain what can be accepted.

Features in PHP 7.1 include: null types, capturing multiple exceptions with a single catch statement, support for HTTP/2 server push, void return type, no value returned, and a negative cheap operation on strings. Version 7.1 also warns against illegal arithmetic string input, as well as a series of validation of inputs.

"Fundamentally, I think people are more concerned about performance than the new syntax. Zuraski said, "PHP is a mature language, which explains why PHP 5.X is so slow in popularity, and that PHP 7, known for its performance, is popular for so fast reasons. ”

Although the tentative version of 7.1 may be released in November, the official release may have to wait until 2018. Suraski said.

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