Hi

For two weeks, I've been working on optimizing a PHP script. At first, it would take around 5 days to complete. Eventually I got that number down to less than a minute. It's been quite an interesting journey, and I shared the first part already with you last week.

This week, though, I picked things up where I left them and managed to increase performance from processing 50,000 rows per second to 1.7 million rows per second. And even though that number is mind-blowing, I actually think there is more room for improvement still 🫣 Nevertheless, it was time to share a progress update, so here we are. You can read about all the new things I did in this new blog post.

In other news, I also finally sat down to write my in-depth look at a new feature that's coming to PHP 8.6: partial function application.

$output = $input 
    |> trim(?)
    |> str_replace(' ', '-', ?)
    |> str_replace(['.', '/', '…'], '', ?)
    |> strtolower(?);

Opinions seem to vary from absolute love to hate, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts about it as well? I think I really like it, although maybe time and practice will have to prove that for sure.

Finally, I also posted a random thought about AI in my blog. I'm curious to hear your feeling on the topic as well.

That's it for this one, have a wonderful rest of the week!

Until next time

Brent