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PHP 7.2's "switch" optimisations Wednesday, November 1st 2017, 10:33 GMT London, UK PHP 7.2 is around the corner soon, and comes with many optimisations. Many new optimisations are implemented in opcache , but some others are implemented in PHP itself. One optimisation that falls in the latter category is an optimisation of the switch / case construct. Before PHP 7.2, PHP considers each case…
VLD released Monday, April 12th 2010, 21:57 BST London, UK I just released a new version of VLD through PECL . This release features the path analytics code that I've outlined in an earlier article . There are also a few fixes for PHP's current trunk, as well as the possibility to format output slightly like a CSV file. That feature was used to make this documentation of opcodes. The path analysis…
More source analysis with VLD Friday, February 19th 2010, 11:27 GMT London, UK VLD is a tool that I started working on years ago to visualise the opcode arrays in PHP. Opcode arrays are what PHP's compiler generates from your source code and can be compared to assembler code that is generated by a C compiler. Instead of it being directly executed by the CPU, it is instead executed by PHP's…