PHP 7 is Ready to Provide Faster Website Access
20 years ago, PHP created by Rasmus Lerdorf and later PHP community continued to develop it for years. Now, the new version of PHP named PHP7 is on stage with most comprehensive developments.PHP 7 named PHPNG (PHP Next Generation) was expected by software developers for a long time.
20 years ago, PHP created by Rasmus Lerdorf and later PHP community continued to develop it for years.Now, the new version of PHP named PHP7 is on stage with most comprehensive developments.PHP 7 named PHPNG (PHP Next Generation) was expected by software developers for a long time.
It was opened to developers in the beta process, and it is obvious that performance has increased significantly.After the PHP 5, it was expected to be published the PHP 6, However it was not published because of Unicode problems and other lots of complications. Furthermore, according to the final test it seems that PHP 7 is at the same level with HHVM which provides improved performance for the hackers and Facebook also uses it.We can say that the performance of PHP 7 is enough for the developers, who do not want to use HHVM.In fact, This issue does not concern only the developers.It offers less source consumption for internet applications and reach more people through the same system and hardware.
Simply, An e-commerce site which use Magento will reach approximately 2x speed and performance with this update.According to the WordPress tests, PHP 7 is two times faster than PHP version 5.6, and it provides less memory usage.According to data in the official PHP site, there was 244 million sites use PHP in January 2013.Some of the most popular sites that use PHP are Facebook (HHVM supported PHP), Wikipedia, Baidu, Yahoo!, Tumblr, Flickr, WordPress, Digg, StockPhoto.
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Yusuf Demir
Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.
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