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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by coder543 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @08:42PM (#31057405)
Do you have any sources? Maybe some truly ancient version? PHP has done garbage collection (seemingly mixed with some reference counting, like Python) for at least 10 or 15 years... I didn't bother to keep searching for even older information, but nothing I saw indicated that PHP only released memory when the process for a request exited.

I don't even think most mainstream uses of PHP have done the process-per-request model for decades, but I could be wrong.

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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by tored on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:34AM (#31060410)
Correct, garbage collector was added to PHP 5.3, prior to 5.3 PHP did only reference counting. PHP 5.3 was released in June of 2009.

Here is a series of articles that describes it in detail

https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.gc.php

Especially look at this example where the same script is executed with and without GC

https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.gc.performance-consid...

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