Editing PHP (section)

==== Just-in-time compilation ====
[[Just-in-time compilation]] is supported in PHP&nbsp;8.<ref name="wiki.php.net-2" />

PHP 8's [[just-in-time compilation|JIT compiler]] can provide substantial performance improvements for some use cases,<ref name="Brent-2">{{cite web |author=Brent |title=PHP 8: JIT performance in real-life web applications |url=https://stitcher.io/blog/jit-in-real-life-web-applications |website=Stitcher.io |access-date=4 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Rethams |first1=Derick |title=PHP 8: A Quick Look at JIT |url=https://derickrethans.nl/a-quick-look-at-jit.html}}</ref> while (then PHP) developer Nikita Popov stated that the performance improvements for most websites will be less substantial than the upgrade from PHP&nbsp;5 to PHP&nbsp;7.<ref name="Popov-2020" /> Substantial improvements are expected more for mathematical-type operations than for common web-development use cases.<ref name="Popov-2020">{{cite web |last1=Popov |first1=Nikita |title="What's new in PHP 8.0?" Nikita Popov |date=13 July 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbBRXwu1Md8  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/NbBRXwu1Md8| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|publisher=PHP fwdays |access-date=4 October 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Additionally, the JIT compiler provides the future potential to move some code from C to PHP, due to the performance improvements for some use cases.<ref name="Daniele-2020">{{cite web |last1=Daniele |first1=Carlo |title=What's New in PHP 8 (Features, Improvements, and the JIT Compiler) |url=https://kinsta.com/blog/php-8/ |website=Kinsta |date=25 May 2020 |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref>