Define compile-time constants in PHP

Posted on March 3, 2020, in category Information, tags: , , , ,

PHP programs are full of global constants that are defined over and over during the runtime even though their value doesn’t change. In this article, we’re describing a way to tackle this potential performance bottleneck.

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New features in 0.9.45

Posted on August 7, 2019, in category Information, News, tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Leading up to the release of the first stable version of our PHP compiler, we are now implementing the first various compiler optimizations. Read more about them in this blog and why you should update or try PeachPie 0.9.45!

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But Why?

Posted on June 20, 2019, in category Information, tags: , , , ,

Almost every post, article or thread on Reddit about PeachPie is inevitably met with someone posting the famed Ryan Reynolds GIF asking “but why?”, so instead of explaining each time, we decided to put our entire motivation behind this project on paper so that we can link to it.

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PHP on .NET Core 3.0

Posted on May 28, 2019, in category Announcement, News, tags: , , ,

Our recent work on the PeachPie compiler gives us a few cool abilities and features. Not only can you compile and run PHP code natively on the .NET runtime (which means all the performance benefits and interop with C#) but now it all works fluently on the new .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0. Let’s […]

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New Release – PeachPie 0.9.38

Posted on April 1, 2019, in category Announcement, Benchmark, Information, News, tags: , , , , , ,

In preparation for the stable release of PeachPie 1.0, we are cleaning up the code and conducting some final fixes and enhancements.

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What’s new in PeachPie 0.9.31?

Posted on January 28, 2019, in category Information, News, tags: , , , , , , ,

As we make the final preparations before publishing version 1.0, lots of new additions have been made ahead of the latest release of PeachPie. Let’s take a look at what’s new.

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The Ultimate WordPress Cache

Posted on July 1, 2018, in category Information, News, tags: , , , , , ,

No reasonable WordPress site is complete without some kind of caching plugin. While PeachPie should inherently speed up the runtime of PHP apps, it also opens up the door to another fantastic possibility: the ASP.NET Core response cache. Intro The web cache is a general issue we will face regardless of language, web server or […]

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First WordPress benchmark

It’s been a while since we produced any benchmarks, so it’s time to put Peachpie to the performance test again. And it’s not going to be a small one – this time, we will benchmark an entire real world application in WordPress.

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PHP on .NET Standard 2.0

For those of you who are hearing about Peachpie for the first time, the title of this article may seem even crazier than it does for the others. We are happy to announce that our project now allows you to compile PHP code directly for .NET Standard 2.0, which has a number of outrageous consequences.

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Fast caching across requests in PHP & .NET

Posted on November 7, 2017, in category Information, Tutorial, tags: , , , , , , ,

In this article, we’d like to describe something you can benefit from implicitly when using Peachpie compiler. Peachpie compiles PHP sources to regular .NET binaries, which gives us several features that are simply not available to regular PHP. An example of this is caching some data you don’t want to create with every single request […]

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