Performance

PHP 2025-12-17
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  • • Better stack implementation in the engine
  • • Constants moved to read-only memory
  • • Improve exception handling (simpler & less opcodes)
  • • Smaller binary size & startup size with gcc4
  • • Substantial performance improvements on Windows (40% +)
  • • md5() is roughly 10-15% faster
  • • Overall Improvement 5-15%