Leaner, meaner PHP 7 promises huge performance boost

PHP 7.0.0, released yesterday after two years in development and eight release candidates, brings with it a doubling of performance said Rasmus Lerdorf, the founder of the language.

In an interview with InfoWorld this week, Lerdorf talked about what to expect from the upgrade to the popular server-side scripting language used in Web development. "On most real-world applications, you'll get a 100 percent speedup," he said. "In theory, you could turn off half the servers in your data center [after the upgrade and still have the same performance as was experienced prior to moving to version 7.0.0]."

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