PHP7.1 New Features & Performance
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PHP 7.1 includes several new features and performance improvements. Some key new features are nullable types for typehints, void return types, support for iterable pseudo-types, class constant visibility modifiers, and the ability to catch multiple exception types in a single catch block. PHP 7.1 also provides over a 10% performance improvement compared to previous versions, due to enhancements like type specific opcode handlers and a new type inference system.
PHP7.1 New Features & Performance
- 1. PHP7.1 New Features & Performance @Laruence
- 2. About Me • Author of Yaf, Yar, Yac, Yaconf, Taint, Lua, etc • Maintainer of APC, Zend Opcache, Msgpack • PHP core developer since 2011 • Zend consultant since 2013 • Core author of PHP7 • Chief Architect at Lianjia
- 3. PHP • 20 years history • Most popular Web service program language • Over 82% sites are use PHP as server side program language • Latest version is PHP-7.1
- 4. PHP71 • Nullable types • Void return type • Iterable pseudo-type • Class constant visibility modifiers • Specify keys in list() • Square bracket syntax for list() • Catching multiple exception types • Missing arguments Excetpion • Warn about invalid strings in arithmetic • Generalize support of negative string offsets • ….
- 5. Nullable types • An enhancement for typehints return type parameters
- 6. Void return types • An enhancement for return type hint
- 7. Iterable Pseudo type • Iterable accepts any array or object implementing Traversable • Iterable can also be used in return type
- 8. Class constant visibility modifiers • Support class constant visibility
- 9. Specify keys in list() • An enhancement for list() • Also works in foreach specify keys in list specify keys in list with foreach
- 10. Square backtrace for list() • Continuation syntax for short array syntax introduced in 5.4 • Also works in foreach too
- 11. Catching multiply exception types • Allow catching multiply exception types in single catch normal way PHP71 way
- 12. Missing arguments exception • Disable calling “user” functions with insufficient actual parameters before 71 after 71
- 13. Warn about invalid strings in arithmetic • Produce E_NOTICE or E_WARNING when using invalid numeric strings with arithmetic operators
- 14. Generalize support of negative string offsets • Support of negative string offsets when it make sense
- 15. One More thing
- 16. PHP71 Performance • Over 10% Perfromance improvement 0.901 1.022 2.991 3.045 3.102 3.762 5.318 6.527 13.424 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 PHP-7.1 PHP-7.0 PHP-5.6 PHP-5.5 PHP-5.4 PHP-5.3 PHP-5.2 PHP-5.1 PHP-5.0 bench.php
- 17. Type specific opcode handlers ZEND_ADD ZEND_ADD_LONG_LONG
- 18. Type Inference system • Part work of our JIT in 2013 normal branch loop
- 19. Static Single-Assignment Form • An intermediate representation, variable is assigned exactly once • Explicit use-def chain
- 20. Type Inference • What’s ? ’s type at ? point • Computed in compiling time
- 21. Type Specific opcode handler • Use type specific opcode handler if possible
- 22. Type Inference system • A tedious work • And we can only get ~30% type-infos in WP
- 23. Type Specific opcode handlers • ZEND_ADD(SUB|MUL) • ZEND_PRE_INC(DEC) • ZEND_POST_INC(DEC) • ZEND_IS_(NOT_)EQUAL • ZEND_IS_SMALLER(_OR_EQUAL) • ZEND_QM_ASSIGN • ZEND_SEND_VAR(_EX) • ZEND_FETCH_DIM_R
- 24. And dozens of minor improvements • More packed array constructions • Constant propagation based on DFA • Return type checks eliding • dozens of minor improvements even I can not recall
- 25. Q&A