🥣 PHP 8.2+ Boosts Memory Beasts On MacOS

The Sun shines bright for the MacOS servers hosting memory intense PHP apps and everyone else

Sometimes you just have to swollow your pride and apologize. Today I have to offer my sorries to PHP developers who follow my articles.

As you have surely noticed, I didn’t cover what’s new in PHP 8.2 while I was covering all other language updates for last four months.

I didn’t do it on purpose, I just missed that update. To prove I am covering PHP too, here is a link to an October article about PHP 8.1.11, and here is a January article about 5 Awesome PHP Projects.

PHP 8.2 was released on the beginning of December. Two months ago. I have this out of my chest. So let’s dig into the changes. I will cover 8.2, 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 (released on the second day of February). For all details you can check out the link at the end of the article. I will tell you about the most interesting changes, because PHP developers completed over 200 tickets.

Faster Memory Intense Applications On MacOS

In the changelog you can find a core position called “Support huge pages on MacOS”. People who reported about 8.2 changes seemed to miss that one, but it is very important.