1. Performance PHP 7 helped to reduce the memory usage and increase the performance. Some benchmarks show that the new performance is as twice as PHP 5.6. PHP 7 can handle 2580 requests per second comparing to 1400 requests per second (Drupal). In my case, the wordpress site of our company needed 25s to fully load, after I apply PHP 7, the loading time is only 8s. Why is PHP 7 faster? + New core engine PHP 4 uses Zend Engine (not confused with Zend framework) PHP 5 uses Zend Engine II PHP 7 uses PHPNG, a refactored Zend Engine II The refactoring makes the new generation of engine consume less memory (bucket size, HashTable size, etc), less CPU resource. 2. Declare type for variables In PHP 5 does not require developers to declare type. Type declaration helps developers to get the expected result. But in PHP 5, dev also can declare type using Type hinting, however, this is limited to function parameters declaration only and also limited to Class type ...