--- title: "PHP 7.4 To PHP 8.6 Benchmarks, PHP 8.6 JIT Performance" url: https://daily.dev/posts/mjnildpfw source_url: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PHP-8.6-Early-Benchmarks type: share source: "PHP Dev" author: "Damien seguy" published: 2026-08-19T11:19:35.453Z updated: 2026-08-19T11:19:35.456Z tags: ["php"] upvotes: 23 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PHP 7.4 To PHP 8.6 Benchmarks, PHP 8.6 JIT Performance **[PHP Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/phpdev)** · [@damienseguy](https://daily.dev/damienseguy) · 23 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Fresh PHP performance benchmarks compare PHP 7.4 through the current Git state of PHP 8.6, run on an Intel Xeon system with Fedora 44. PHPbench showed gradual gains across PHP 8.x releases, but PHP 8.6 Git was regressing versus PHP 8.5, expected to be resolved before the stable 8.6.0 release later in 2026. A separate self-test showed no such regression, with PHP 8.6's JIT providing a slight additional boost. Older PHP7/PHP5 releases were excluded because they segfaulted when built with GCC 16. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > I'd repeat the suite across multiple compilers and workloads before treating the 8.6 regression as a verdict. That would show whether this is one optimizer interaction or a broader runtime change. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/mjnildpfw)