---
title: "Why PHP 8 Has High Performance"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-php-8-has-high-performance-xnajpwxtj
source_url: https://dev.to/servbay/why-php-8-has-high-performance-21pf
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-12-11T10:06:58.809Z
updated: 2024-12-11T10:07:25.352Z
tags: ["tech-news", "webdev", "performance", "php"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 110
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# Why PHP 8 Has High Performance

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 3 min read · 110 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

PHP 8 significantly improves performance with the introduction of the JIT compiler, optimized function calls and array operations, new data structures such as the Red-Black Tree, and fixes to internal implementation details. These enhancements lead to better execution speed and memory management, making web application development more efficient.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 7 upvotes

> ai generated slop just to add a link to a saas product

**@bilalnadeem614** · 0 upvotes

> Thanks for easy word explanation!

**@rucaua** · 0 upvotes

> I believe language is never a bottleneck for app usually used php. So it is nice, but it is a not key feature for php. It is important for python, go etc. For php more important is readable code and early error detection (thanks for strict types etc).

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