PHP 5.6 - 8.1 Benchmark with JIT included

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PHP has made some huge progress in the past couple of years with the release of 8.0 and 8.1 and their new features like named parameters , constructor promotion , match expression , union return types , readonly properties , enums , just to name a few.

The most important one in my opinion related to performance is JIT. I’ve been fascinated by this feature and how much it helps in the long…