PHP7.4 Speed Gains
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Quick Experiment I did this morning:
PageSpeed Insight Test (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/):
PHP 7.3.11:
PHP 7.4.0:
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Definitely worth looking into!
PageSpeed Insight Test (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/):
PHP 7.3.11:
| URL | Mobile | Desktop |
https://www.serpwoo.com/ | 32 | 59 |
https://www.serpwoo.com/blog/ | 80 | 97 |
| (New SW HomePage) | 75 | 98 |
PHP 7.4.0:
| URL | Mobile | Desktop |
https://www.serpwoo.com/ | 32 | 61 |
https://www.serpwoo.com/blog/ | 92 | 100 |
| (New SW HomePage) | 75 | 97 |
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Definitely worth looking into!
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One consideration is this.
I spun up a new server in the last 7 days at digital ocean and had php7.3 and 7.4 and it was missing libs that I needed for different extensions and other code.
Had to revert back to 7.2 to get everything to work.
Some of these just aren't up to snuff yet even using different repos.
I spun up a new server in the last 7 days at digital ocean and had php7.3 and 7.4 and it was missing libs that I needed for different extensions and other code.
Had to revert back to 7.2 to get everything to work.
Some of these just aren't up to snuff yet even using different repos.
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It's only like 4 or 5 days old now. I'm interested (more interested in PHP 8.0 which is coming next), but like anything, we should all wait a while. Even though developer versions were available, it'll take time for server companies, Wordpress, plugins, and anything else to be completely ready.
I'm going to wait on the benchmarks to come out, anyways, before I blindly jump aboard. Anyone with a content site needs to be caching their sites, so this won't have much of an impact in that regard anyways.
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Wow, feels good man!
Also @Samwise89 and @eliquid - most of the php libraries do not need updated versions, there is a way to use older libraries with the latest PHP.
For example "apt-get install php-redis" will just install the latest php-redis in the current running php folder. screenshot:
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What you are seeing is that I seem to have a lot of different PHPs installed on this server! BUT the current one being used is the 7.4. PHP Redis was not able to run until I installed it within that PHP. So you don't need to wait for developers to update their code, just have to reinstalled the libraries - which can be a pain if you don't have a list of stuff you installed though.
Also @Samwise89 and @eliquid - most of the php libraries do not need updated versions, there is a way to use older libraries with the latest PHP.
For example "apt-get install php-redis" will just install the latest php-redis in the current running php folder. screenshot:
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What you are seeing is that I seem to have a lot of different PHPs installed on this server! BUT the current one being used is the 7.4. PHP Redis was not able to run until I installed it within that PHP. So you don't need to wait for developers to update their code, just have to reinstalled the libraries - which can be a pain if you don't have a list of stuff you installed though.