It's not a compiled language like C, Java or Rust, and needs to be translated for the CPU to understand PHP code. "A JIT compiler may improve the performance of your program significantly ...

With Sentry Performance Monitoring for PHP, developers can quickly identify performance issues with PHP-based applications and view end-to-end traces to pinpoint issues and surface related errors.

BURLINGAME, Calif.--The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted ...