This new major update brings many optimizations and powerful features to the language. We’re excited to drive you through the most interesting changes that will allow us to write better code and build more robust applications.
Even if opcodes are low-level intermediate representation, they still have to be compiled into machine code. JIT “doesn’t introduce any additional IR (Intermediate Representation) form,” but uses DynASM (Dynamic Assembler for code generation engines) to generate native code directly from PHP byte-code.
In short, JIT translates the hot parts of the intermediate code into machine code. Bypassing compilation, it’d be able to bring considerable improvements in performance and memory usage.
Apart from JIT, we can expect many features and improvements with PHP 8. The following list is our handpicked selection of the upcoming additions and changes that should make PHP more reliable and efficient.
- Constructor Property Promotion
- Validation for Abstract Trait Methods
- Incompatible Method Signatures
- Arrays Starting With a Negative Index
- Union Types 2.0
- Consistent Type Errors for Internal Functions
- throw Expression
- Weak Maps
- Trailing Comma in Parameter List
- Allow ::class syntax on objects
- Attributes v2
- Named Arguments
- Nullsafe Operator
- Saner String to Number Comparisons
- Saner Numeric Strings
- Match Expression v2
- Stricter Type Checks for Arithmetic/Bitwise Operators
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