Stories by nikic

LLVM: The Bad Parts

This Year in LLVM

This Year in LLVM

The Opcache Optimizer

Internal value representation in PHP 7, part 1

Fast request routing using regular expressions

Why objects usually use less memory than arrays in PHP

The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5

Are PHP developers functophobic?

What PHP 5.5 might look like

PHP solves problems. Oh, and you can program with it too

Understanding PHP's internal function definitions

Show HN: A PHP parser written in PHP

Disproving PHP's Single Quotes Performance Myth

Don't be stupid: Grasp SOLID

Supercolliding a PHP array (inserting 65536 elements takes 30 seconds)